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In the 3G era, business models were  unclear at the onset. And though we forget, that was true for the 4G era as well. So we should not be surprised that uncertainty exists around 5G. In fact, [...]

It was easier to find skeptics about 5G capital investment costs a few years ago, when some predicted service providers could not afford 5G at all, because of the huge increase in cell sites an [...]

The amount of traffic offloaded from smartphones will be 59 percent by 2022, and the amount of traffic offloaded from tablets will be 72 percent. Some have speculated that Wi-Fi offload would be [...]

Over the past 20 years (some time after consumer Wi-Fi was launched about 1997)  there has been a recurring–if now relatively muted–theme in the wireless access business: is Wi-Fi a [...]

Everyone seems to agree that mobile 5G networks using millimeter wave spectrum will require denser backhaul networks, as the millimeter waves will not reach as far as lower-frequency spectrum. [...]

The satellite services industry faces challenges similar to those faced by other connectivity providers, namely a shift of demand. In 2017, 75 percent of service provider revenues were generated [...]

Low-cost bandwidth has become a strategic imperative for mobile networks for several reasons, including the primary need to support video entertainment. Indeed, it would not be unfair to argue [...]

Many discussions of the value of 5G, and of 5G bandwidth are a matter of rhetorical overkill. Observers complain about “fake 5G” that really is 4G Advanced, fixed wireless using 5G or [...]

A recent report by the Ireland Commission for Communications Regulation  finds that the use of modern building materials,windows, block materials and roofing can have an extraordinarily [...]

Researchers at Deloitte expect 5G commercial launches by 25 mobile operators in 2019, another 26 launching in 2020. Deloitte also expects about one million 5G fixed wireless accounts to be in [...]

The difference in experience between advanced forms of 4G and 5G networks, with the possible exceptions of big downloads and experience compared to public Wi-Fi, might not be so visible to most [...]

In the 5G era, service providers and device manufacturers will have to rethink connection strategy, as it is expected 5G networks will nearly always be faster than any other options.  Already, in [...]

The cost of one gigabyte of mobile internet usage has more than halved relative to the income of Southeast Asians over the last four years, says Temasek, though that is driven by prices in [...]

Perhaps improbably, at least some internet service providers–Comcast in particular–have been doubling the top speeds on their networks at rates consistent with Moore’s Law . “Comcast [...]

Virtualization of core and access networks is a key trend that will shape the communications business over the next couple of decades. In the 5G era, as core and access networks are virtualized, [...]