It is not too hard to find skeptics about revenue upside for mobile operators in 5G, internet of things or edge computing, because it is hard to demonstrate the business case in a near term [...]
Global revenue growth rates provide the best evidence possible of why new revenue sources and business models must be developed in the mobile industry. Traditional mobile revenues will have a [...]
Network architectures and communication protocols are not the primary concern of most people who work in and around the telecommunications industry, but architectures always reflect the dominant [...]
It might seem like hyperbole to claim that, in the 5G and future eras, all device access will be untethered. Not most; all. So here’s the logic: “access” increasingly means the way a device or [...]
Network architectures always directly reflect perceptions of what drives revenue. Many decades ago, the architecture of a telecom network, in a single domain, was simple. Traffic passed between [...]
Mobility “broke” some rules about telecom architecture, namely the rule that the public network terminated on the side of a house or in the basement of a building or inside a wiring closet. In [...]
Some 23 mobile operators have commercially launched 41 mobile internet of things networks worldwide, including both NB-IoT and LTE-M platforms NB-IoT networks are available from 3 Hong Kong [...]
The internet has almost uniformly been positive for consumers–generating new value–while allowing some firms to ride new value propositions to huge business success. On the other [...]
Not too often does even the biggest bit of thinking by a research and development organization actually wind up adopted at a high commercial level. Nokia now is calling its 5G [...]
From 2009 to 2017–a period of eight years–consumer costs for mobile bandwidth fell two orders of magnitude (100 times). Over that period, their consumption also grew by about two [...]
There seems to be growing confusion about “5G” and other next-generation networks. I’ve heard commentary at recent conferences about how this or that platform is relevant for, or part of, 5G. It [...]
Satellite roles in 5G are being adopted by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the mobile standards development group. Specifically, 3GPP is looking at standards ensuring that [...]
As with all business decisions made by telecom firms, 5G strategies are shaped by the realm of possibility and practical evaluations of revenue and profit potential. Sprint has lots of 2.5-GHz [...]
Bandwidth might be a key issue for human users of mobile and fixed networks. For most machine-to-machine applications, bandwidth is far less an issue than sensor battery life, as the amount of [...]
The 5G era is going to be different from all others in the history of telecom, for several reasons. Traditionally, scarcity has been the paramount business constraint. Bandwidth was scarce and [...]