5G+ is as good a way as any to assess the value 5G might produce. Bell Labs Consulting uses “5G+” as an umbrella term for a broad ecosystem of technologies that will unlock the future economic potential of industry. And that makes sense for observers who argue that 5G is but part of a complex [...]

Most of the stories you will see about the U.S. C-band auction will emphasize the sheer amount of money spent to acquire some of the 280 MHz of spectrum. The auction will set a new record for spending in a single auction, to be sure. The reason is that the Federal Communications Commission has [...]

It already seems clear that mobile operator 5G strategies for edge computing, for the most part, avoid direct competition with the hyperscale cloud computing giants, operating instead as edge real estate partners (space, racks, security, cooling, power), 5G networking for system integrators or [...]

As 5G continues to deploy globally, the focus now shifts to how 5G, artificial intelligence and the internet of things will be monetized. What are the 5G value propositions and business models for consumers, enterprises and service providers? And there is a reason Jefferson Wang, Accenture [...]

6G will  not be “about voice”, as was the case for 5G and 4G as well. You might recall that when 4G launched, voice was carried on 3G, while 4G was essentially a data network. Voice over LTE developed later, to carry voice natively on the 4G network. In the early 5G era, it appears [...]

In 2001 the Federal Communications Commission created a new unlicensed band of seven GigaHertz worth of spectrum between 57 and 64 GHz, available for wireless communications. The 60-GHz wireless band was likely chosen for unlicensed use at least in part because of the high signal attenuation. [...]

Building a nationwide next-generation network across a continent-sized country always takes a while. It arguably takes a bit longer when the spectrum assets needed to do so must be patiently assembled over a period of time. And that arguably is precisely what AT&T and Verizon face with 5G. [...]

For more than a century, telco executives easily could identify who their customers were; what the main customer needs were; how telco products solved those problems and how those products created value. Telcos also knew what they needed to do to create those values; their main tasks and [...]

As hard as it might be to envision, mobile services that now drive revenue growth in the global telecom business will not always do so. The reason is that connectivity firms selling directly to enterprises, smaller businesses and consumers are holding leaky buckets. Stick to the services [...]

Mobile cellular networks have always been built on the principle of frequency reuse, the ability to increase capacity of a radio network by subdividing use of available frequencies within a coverage area. A simple way to explain this is how a cellular network and a tV broadcast network use [...]

Many mobile service provider executives have professed concern about the business model for 5G, which might be considered misplaced, given industry history. That makes sense for the net new use cases and revenue models that might be possible: those business models must be built. source: [...]

Somes a bug can be a feature. Consider atmospheric attenuation of radio frequency signals at 60 GHz, At that frequency, oxygen in the atmosphere attenuates about 98 percent of the emitted energy. That limits coverage. So it might be paradoxical that Terragraph is working to commercialize use of [...]