Mobile

What 5G means is different for mobile operators, consumers and enterprises. For mobile operators, 5G means lower costs per bit, a new way to create virtual private networks that can be [...]

Proponents of open approaches to radio access networks tout its cost savings. Opponents often argue the savings will be not as great as claimed. Much hinges on assumptions about radio access [...]

Low earth orbit satellite constellations such as Spacelink will allow satellite broadband provides to serve 3.5 million subscribers in 2021, growing at an eight-percent compound annual growth [...]

One occasionally hears comments about whether 5G “is real” or “will succeed.” The implication is that 5G so far is over-hyped, and that is a reasonable view, for the moment. The longer-term issue [...]

Right now, there is a possible gap between users of 5G phones and users of 5G. Nearly 40 percent of 5G phone users leave 5G turned off all the time, a survey by Android Authority finds. What is [...]

Asking whether mobile operators can earn more from 5G than 4G, though a logical question, turns out to be the wrong question. The real question is whether mobile operators can grow revenues [...]

Sometimes a bug  can be a feature. Perhaps, more commonly, a bug is an implicit end user request for a feature not originally envisioned. In the radio communications world, high signal [...]

How big an opportunity is private 5G or private 4G networking, and for whom? To the extent that all premises private networks have been most important and valuable for networking infrastructure [...]

Beyond higher bandwidth, lower latency and massive device connectivity, what else might 6G mobile networks offer? SoftBank, at least at this point, envisions one outcome most expect: the [...]

It is not yet clear whether 5G average revenue per user or per account will be higher, the same or eventually lower than 4G services, as much as mobile operators hope for “higher” numbers. And [...]

Industrial enterprise executives tell Capgemini they see 5G as a platform for digital transformation, and also suggest edge computing and network slicing are key for those use cases. Network [...]

AT&T will move its 5G core network to the Microsoft cloud. The switch means Microsoft’s Azure Cloud provides a path for all of AT&T’s mobile network traffic to be managed using Microsoft [...]

Multi-access edge computing could affect public and private networking choices, at least when enterprises look at use cases requiring high-performance, low-latency, high-availability and high [...]

Enterprise private networks long have been a lucrative field for system integrators. And that pattern already seems to be emerging for enterprise private 5G networks. A study by BearingPoint [...]

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. [...]