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Prospects for mobile substitution for internet access hinge mostly on price, as in many markets, “mobile broadband connections do however run at faster speeds than most home wireless broadband [...]

In the U.S. market, the cost of using mobile voice has declined, whitle the cost of using fixed network voice has climbed since 2009, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, measured [...]

Spectrum scarcity long has been a key assumption of mobile or fixed wireless service provider business models. But scarcity is diminishing. Over the next few years, it is likely that mobile [...]

The cost of spectrum always matters for mobile operators in competitive markets. Prices of 5G spectrum in Italy, an outlier so far, were driven by a new competitor eager to get into the market. [...]

Sales volumes of 5G smartphones will be lead by devices optimized for sub-6-GHz frequencies over the next several years, particularly for the 3.5 GHz to 4.5 GHz frequency range, predicts the [...]

Verizon has faced criticism in some quarters related to the performance of its millimeter wave fixed wireless service, which remains in early commercialization. The general tenor of the critique [...]

“To date, no adverse health effects have been established as being caused by mobile phone use,” says the World Health Organization. That might be worth reiterating, in light of concern in some [...]

How hard–or easy–will it be to sell smartphone 5G to consumers? Some now believe it might be harder than it was to sell 4G to 3G customers. Maybe not, others might argue. When 4G [...]

“The top priority for spectrum auctions should be to support affordable, high quality mobile services,” the GSMA, a major mobile industry trade group argues. While noting that auctions are not [...]

Some technology innovations are important because they either keep an existing business model from breaking, or threaten to break business models. Low earth orbit satellite constellations, in [...]

The top three drivers for deploying systems and connectivity at the edge are operational: * analyzing and controlling devices * improving process speed/reducing latency issues * reducing data [...]

Lower frequency spectrum is better for coverage, while higher frequency spectrum is better for capacity, and mobile service providers need both. That will be as true in the 5G era as it has been [...]

Reliance Jio has been a 4G mobile operator for less than three years, but has completely disrupted the market with its rapid network rollout and unlimited data plans, reaching 97.5 percent [...]

Will service provider executives and firms be significantly better at predicting 5G use cases and new revenue streams than they were at predicting 3G and 4G use cases and revenue streams? [...]

With coming dual connectivity capabilities, allowing a single 5G device to use capacity resources from two radio sites, we can point to one new way 5G can build on 4G: 4G often will provide [...]