Spectrum

Will 5G command a price premium? Almost certainly, in the early going, as the early adopters will tend to be business customers, who can, and will, pay more, as well as early adopter consumers, [...]

Whether 5G ever will have a “killer app” remains an open question, though one can argue that each successive new mobile generation has had use modes characteristic to itself that were not seen in [...]

One way of looking at the business value of 5G is to note simply that it enables cost per gigabyte low enough to support coming business models where much more mobile data must be provided, at [...]

Frequency, channel width and bandwidth are directly related, as early tests of millimeter wave 5G show. Firms launching using mid-band and low-band spectrum will achieve better coverage, but at [...]

By 2026, mobile machine-to-machine (internet of things) connections will represent about 62 percent of such connections, while non-cellular connections are about 38 percent of total connections, [...]

U.S. wireless providers increased their spectrum efficiency 42 times since 2010, according to a new white paper released by CTIA, the wireless industry association. That matters since U.S. mobile [...]

Supply and demand always affects the value of spectrum. So if supply and demand change radically, so should prices. And prices matter. Spectrum licenses make up a major portion of mobile operator [...]

LoRa has the lead, in terms of number of low-power wide area network connections, according to IHS Markit. But narrowband IoT will  be the leader by 2023, IHS Markit researchers predict.  source: [...]

It is easy to miss the profound implications of millimeter wave spectrum, even as new ways are found to increase the amount of low-band and mid-band spectrum usable by mobile operators and Wi-Fi [...]

So far, 5G networks launched by Verizon, AT&T and Sprint have had limited footprints and relatively few users. As on any lightly-loaded network, available bandwidth per user is high, ranging [...]

Spectrum scarcity long has been a key assumption of mobile or fixed wireless service provider business models. But scarcity is diminishing. Over the next few years, it is likely that mobile [...]

The cost of spectrum always matters for mobile operators in competitive markets. Prices of 5G spectrum in Italy, an outlier so far, were driven by a new competitor eager to get into the market. [...]

Verizon has faced criticism in some quarters related to the performance of its millimeter wave fixed wireless service, which remains in early commercialization. The general tenor of the critique [...]

“To date, no adverse health effects have been established as being caused by mobile phone use,” says the World Health Organization. That might be worth reiterating, in light of concern in some [...]

How hard–or easy–will it be to sell smartphone 5G to consumers? Some now believe it might be harder than it was to sell 4G to 3G customers. Maybe not, others might argue. When 4G [...]