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Nothing better illustrates the vast change in telco business models, attitudes towards capital investment and operating costs than the situation facing executives in the post-monopoly world. [...]

Ericsson predicts that 5G mobile subscriptions will exceed 580 million by the end of 2021, driven by an estimated one million new 5G subscriptions every day. Europe is off to a slower start and [...]

New entrants into existing markets often face a “trust” issue. Buyers cannot be sure the new provider will deliver value at least as much value as the existing providers without disrupting [...]

Small amounts of market share can be a big deal for certain connectivity providers. Satellite providers globally tend to hold less than one percent market share of home broadband connections, for [...]

Mobility has been for a couple of decades the revenue driver for the global telecom industry, in some cases representing as much as 100 percent of revenue growth overall. But growth rates are [...]

Many observers might agree that it will be difficult to boost consumer revenue from 5G by simply raising prices, compared to 4G. But there are other ways to do so. Among the proven ways is to [...]

“5G networks are now nearing a critical mass of global commercial network deployments and subscribers,” according to 5G Americas. According to Omdia, the world added 385.5 million 5G subscribers [...]

A new report issued by the by BCG for the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association suggests new use cases enabled by 5G will generate nearly 66 percent of total “telco” revenues [...]

This is a good illustration of the Pareto theorem, which states that 80 percent of instances or outcomes in business or nature come from 20 percent of the cases or effort. The Pareto theorem is [...]

When will U.S. 5G subscribers hit an inflection point? As early as this year or perhaps as late as 2023? The inflection point is important, as it has in the past been the point at which slow or [...]

Mobile network speeds have not historically matched fixed network speed increases, in large part because mobile spectrum has been sharply limited, while cabled networks can, in principle, use all [...]

Dynamic spectrum sharing can be thought of in a number of ways. It is a way of shifting spectrum to 5G uses in instances where many customers, but a declining number, use the 4G platform. It is a [...]

The advice to “go digital” or “digitally transform” is almost meaningless these days. Firms already use all manner of technologies, ranging from smartphones and PCs to the internet to mobile apps [...]

Ignoring for the moment access to the millimeter wave spectrum, the impact of the U.S. C-band auction of 280 MHz spectrum is considerable and likely foundational for U.S. 5G prospects. The reason [...]

Speed still seems a more-important buying criteria than speed, for mobile customers, at least when the choices are data speeds or availability of 5G service.  That goes for business and consumer [...]