Spectrum

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, [...]

Competition in the Italian mobile market, especially from new entrants who need more spectrum, seems to be driving up 3.6 GHz to 3.8 GHz spectrum prices, which are now being auctioned in Italy. [...]

It is not easy to estimate use cases for the early 5G mobile network deployments (2018 and 2019) On one hand, since handsets will not be available until mid-2019 or so, it seems logical that the [...]

AT&T says it will launch mobile 5G in Indianapolis this year. AT&T previously had said Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Raleigh and Waco would be early to get 5G as well. Keep [...]

In the early going, an order of magnitude (10 times) to two orders of magnitude (100 times) change in the cost of supplying internet bandwidth might be the key early value of 5G networks. In [...]

Observers hoping for a big change in consumer spending on 5G are likely to be disappointed. With one key caveat–that internet of things revenues generated by services sold to enterprises [...]

One basic rule I use when evaluating service provider business models is to assume that tier-one service providers lose about half their current revenue about every 10 years, and therefore have [...]

“Korea Telecom estimated that on average 5G networks would need four times the amount of transmitters per given area compared to 4G networks,” the World Economic Forum has said.  That might seem [...]

It should come as no surprise that spectrum costs to support 5G are dropping, on a MegaHertz per POP (person) basis, which is how we measure prices. MHz-POP prices are dropping for reasons of [...]

As 5G networks come online, more executives are going to evaluate 5G fixed wireless, both in from a mobile service provider and a fixed network service provider perspective. United States [...]

5G fixed wireless is more than clever; more than a way to use a mobile platform to compete with fixed network internet access providers for the first time. No, 5G fixed wireless represents a [...]

Ideas sometimes take decades to emerge as commercial realities, something we will likely see with artificial intelligence, internet of things, connected cars, and possible even edge computing. [...]

Every service provider’s 5G strategy is going to be shaped by its own perception of opportunities.  Verizon, for example, has the smallest fixed network footprint among tier-one internet access [...]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is in a hurry to commercialize lots of 5G millimeter wave spectrum, and will finalize rules for an auction of 28 GHz and 24 GHz spectrum  in August [...]

NTT researchers recently demonstrated ability to transmit 100 Gbps at 300 GHz frequencies, far beyond the ranges we have used for freespace communications in the past.   One reason mobile and [...]