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Even if the great advantage of a network running internet protocol is that it is inherently an “any application” network, end user demand changes and the separation of app from access both mean [...]

Will 5G command a price premium? Almost certainly, in the early going, as the early adopters will tend to be business customers, who can, and will, pay more, as well as early adopter consumers, [...]

The business model for 5G network slicing could, in principle, take two different paths. It could be a way for service providers to create customized private networks for their customers. It [...]

Many discussions of 5G spectrum seem to center on where all the capacity will come from. The confusion is understandable. If every area where 5G is made available has to support the sorts of [...]

Whether 5G ever will have a “killer app” remains an open question, though one can argue that each successive new mobile generation has had use modes characteristic to itself that were not seen in [...]

One way of looking at the business value of 5G is to note simply that it enables cost per gigabyte low enough to support coming business models where much more mobile data must be provided, at [...]

For most of us, blockchain and artificial or augmented intelligence are specialized capabilities we do not buy or use as discrete purchases or apps, but are experienced as features of some [...]

Frequency, channel width and bandwidth are directly related, as early tests of millimeter wave 5G show. Firms launching using mid-band and low-band spectrum will achieve better coverage, but at [...]

By 2026, mobile machine-to-machine (internet of things) connections will represent about 62 percent of such connections, while non-cellular connections are about 38 percent of total connections, [...]

It often appears that all discussions about the value or role of 5G really about 5G. That seems most obvious when 5G is positioned as a race, especially to deploy the access networks.  To be [...]

U.S. wireless providers increased their spectrum efficiency 42 times since 2010, according to a new white paper released by CTIA, the wireless industry association. That matters since U.S. mobile [...]

Singapore has very low prices for mobile data usage. Today, a gigabyte of usage costs about Singapore 90 cents. Just five years ago, a gigabyte of usage cost about S$13. Nor is the trend confined [...]

Supply and demand always affects the value of spectrum. So if supply and demand change radically, so should prices. And prices matter. Spectrum licenses make up a major portion of mobile operator [...]

LoRa has the lead, in terms of number of low-power wide area network connections, according to IHS Markit. But narrowband IoT will  be the leader by 2023, IHS Markit researchers predict.  source: [...]

The existential threat to the mobility business is the seeming inability to monetize ever-increasing data consumption. In the United Kingdom, mobile revenues have dropped since 2012 by about [...]