5G does already change user experience in some cases, if not yet new applications and use cases. With the caveat that results might be different in countries with faster in-home Wi-Fi or less reliance on public Wi-Fi hotspots, 5G seems to have a big impact on smartphone experience, according to [...]

Some observers think the India 5G private networks market addressable by mobile operators is quite questionable after the Indian government decided to essentially license enterprise 5G spectrum at no cost, allowing enterprise users to create private networks on the same model as Wi-Fi, but with [...]

T-Mobile has topped one million U.S. home broadband accounts, and  expects to have between seven million and eight million home broadband accounts by 2025. If revenue per unit is about $50 a month, or $600 per year, annual revenue at one million accounts is about $600 million. At seven million [...]

Despite high expectations for incremental revenue from network slicing and private networks, neither is likely to generate much new 5G revenue by 2028, at least when compared to consumer 5G subscription revenues, according to ABI Research.  source: ABI Research That should not come as a [...]

Frequency and reach are inversely correlated: the higher the signal frequency, the lower the distance those signals will travel. That matters for 5G, and will matter more with every succeeding mobile generation, as the available radio frequencies available to support future networks are almost [...]

As somebody who has spent lots of time following 5G, I also get the feeling I have seen this before, and I do not mean I have watched 3G and 4G arrive. No, it is something else. It is ancient history for many, but I can also recall expectations about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, […]

Verizon Business is adding the Atos computer vision to its multi-access edge computing fabric, aiming to support industrial internet of things applications that include the ability to do predictive analysis of industrial process disruptions.  By 2025, by some estimates, computer vision will be [...]

Though situations will vary from place to place, one potential development with 5G has been its potential to replace some Wi-Fi use, especially where tariffs allow unlimited data usage of 5G.  In New Zealand, which has had 5G live since December 2019, a new Opensignal analysis shows that [...]

Given a choice, executives in the mobile business would prefer to use lower-frequency spectrum than high-frequency assets. Lower frequencies propagate better, so are easier to manage when coverage is really important. But executives do not have unlimited choice.  Lower-frequency assets are [...]

It might be fair to say that mobile phone access, fixed wireless, low earth orbit satellite constellations and, to some extent, hybrid fiber coax have been viewed as niches compared to fiber to the home and digital subscriber line platforms in the global fixed network internet access business.  [...]

Rakuten might be correct about its own capital investment and operating cost savings from a virtualized and open radio access platform. Still, revenue upside, spectrum assets, marketing prowess and other elements of strategy–including the timing of capex–arguably are more [...]

The new infrastructure bill is touted as making $65 billion available for demand and supply investments in U.S. broadband access. And there is an argument to be made that both supply and demand investments will change consumer behavior. The issue is how much. Many people use their [...]