Business Model

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]