by Bob Horton, consultant The prospect of 5G and the Internet of Things by as early as 2020 are already significantly influencing the telecommunications business and the use of spectrum, which [...]
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 [...]
Ofcom, the U.K. communications regulator, has decided to auction 190 MHz of spectrum in two frequency bands, increasing mobile capacity by nearly a third. Some 40 MHz of spectrum will be [...]
Among the potential 5G business model challenges is a mismatch between the expected value of use cases and hoped-for revenue opportunities. Put simply, the gigabit speeds 5G will enable for [...]
Chinese operators are on track to launch commercial 5G networks by 2020 and are expected to establish China as the world’s largest 5G market by 2025, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence [...]
The coming 5G era is likely to be quite different from all prior generations of mobile networks, in several ways. First, it is likely to be the first mobile network generation whose new revenue [...]
T-Mobile US has tested License Assisted Access (LAA) on its commercial network, allowing T-Mobile to essentially aggregate mobile spectrum with unlicensed 5-GHz spectrum to boost download speeds [...]
T-Mobile US has asked the Federal Communications Commission to change the licensing rules for Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), the 150-MHz band in the 3.5-GHz region to use a novel [...]
Growing use of unlicensed (unlicensed spectrum aggregated with licensed spectrum) and shared spectrum (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) to support mobile communications will create new [...]
A good portion of the business model for AT&T’s new first responder network will come from spectrum sharing. Spectrum sharing fundamentally is important because it can change the business [...]
Oddly enough, in an industry where the direction of technology development has been towards more and more capacity (“broadband”), the next wave of development includes a key focus on “narrowband” [...]
5G is among the hottest “buzz words” in the global telecom business for good reasons: it might be transformative in several ways, driving big industry revenue changes; changing the value of [...]
Even if most of the attention in popular media is about “cord cutting” related to linear video subscriptions, internet access cord cutting arguably is an equally-big potential issue. According [...]
The global mobile business, like its predecessor fixed line networks business, was built on scarcity. Monopoly regulation created scarcity by policy decision, allowing only one firm to lawfully [...]
As always seems to be the case, no single “indoor” mobile access approach is “perfect.” In large part, that is because venues vary so much in size. So, as is always the case for any access or [...]
