Internet Access

As “nobody wants to be known as a telco anymore, so no connectivity provider wants its value proposition to be some version of “we connect you.” Increasingly, we hear calls to [...]

Some now wonder why mobile network generations cannot more fully resemble the ways optical fiber transceiver development and Ethernet standards increase capacity over time. As optical [...]

It is clear why infrastructure suppliers tout all the new features 5G can provide, compared to 4G: it helps such firms sell their products. It also is obvious why mobile operators tout 5G: it [...]

To some extent, the mobile connectivity industry already is moving towards a “reuse rather than replace” mode for its development of next-generation networks. For example,  6G will build on 5G as [...]

Revenue growth is arguably the paramount strategic concern for access service providers in developed markets that are virtually completely saturated, meaning almost every person who wants to use [...]

It is not too hard to find critics who say 6G being overhyped, as was 5G. Though true, such criticism also is largely irrelevant. On either fixed or mobile networks, we see major upgrades of [...]

At the moment, 5G fixed wireless is the clear contributor to new revenue sources earned by 5G networks. No other use case has produced the volume of new revenue.  Revenues from 5G fixed wireless, [...]

Charlie Ergen, Dish chairman, always has believed that spectrum has business value, and should be acquired whenever possible, even if his firm had no immediate way to monetize it, and even when [...]

Vodafone is not the first, nor will it be the last mobile operator to conclude that full ownership of tower assets is no longer a necessity. In fact, mobile operators have reached that same [...]

iberty Global is looking at selling its Belgian tower network. Separately, Liberty and Telefonica are investigating selling  U.K. towers as well. Both deals illustrate the changing value of asset [...]

Though mobile operators might not like the frank answer to the question “where is the 5G revenue?,” the answer, for the most part, right now, is “right where it already is.” Which is simply to [...]

Sometimes big problems get solved and we hardly recognize that has happened. Consider the problem of providing voice communications to all the people of the planet. Fifty years ago, that was a [...]

It is surprising how many times one hears or reads that 5G has failed. It is an odd argument since 5G still is not deployed in most places, though it will be. Such assessments are partly [...]

Some observers note that 5G demand at present is lower in Europe than in China or the United States. Ookla notes that uptake is driven by network coverage, device availability and use cases.  [...]

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 [...]