It is not hard to predict that 5G revenue will be substantial by 2025. By then, 5G might represent 12 percent of total mobile subscriptions globally, and that alone would represent a substantial [...]
Greater China and a few emerging Asian markets drove sales of smartphones in the second quarter of 2017, say analysts at Gartner. India, Indonesia and Southeast Asian countries drove a [...]
Value really has become the key strategic problem for mobile and fixed network operators, and not even the advice of the smartest consultants offers an easy path forward. Mobile devices and users [...]
Fixed wireless using 5G networks will generate $1 billion in service revenue by the end of 2019, mostly in the United States, according to researchers at SNS Research. The market is further [...]
After launching its “Google Station” program in India, supplying Wi-Fi to train stations, Google is doing the same in Indonesia. Google is partnering with internet service providers, venue [...]
At least some observers might have argued that “we do not need 3G.” Some might have argued there “is no need for 4G.” So it is not surprising that some argue there is no need for 5G, either. One [...]
Artificial intelligence (machine learning) can make a key difference in forecasting telecom industry market share trends and performance, says James Sullivan, J.P. Morgan head of Asia equity [...]
“Everybody” knows that the telecom industry has a “perception of value” problem. A new conferencing service launched by Amazon illustrates the problem. Before your head blows off, this is a [...]
A growing number of experienced observers now say the industry is headed for a cataclysmic change in the next decade. The optimistic view is that new value propositions and value will drive the [...]
Getting industry professionals ready for an industry we will not recognize is the purpose of Industry Transformation Boot Camp, a week-long program explaining what is coming; why it is coming; [...]
By 2025, the global telecom service provider industry is going to shrink from 800 firms to about 105, lead by just five global giants, according to Bell Labs. That is a reduction of 87 percent, [...]
A reasonable person could argue that consolidation was necessary in the Indian mobile market, which has been among the most-competitive in the world, in terms of the number of suppliers. In most [...]
If you take the long view, some “news” items are not surprising. If you observe that mobile data revenues are peaking, then it is not too surprising when a decline occurs. Analyst Chetan Sharma [...]
By the end of 2016, two thirds of the world’s population had a mobile subscription, a total of 4.8 billion unique subscribers, according to the GSMA. By 2020, almost three quarters of the world’s [...]
Video is expected to drive 83 percent of device-based data traffic in 2020 across 10 countries, according to PwC. That is a huge change from the pre-internet era, when voice services drove [...]
