The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inequality in our society — and how lack of Internet connectivity can exacerbate that divide. Across the country, as students were sent home to learn remotely and workers were asked to work from home, those …
Over the past year, telcos have been up against an acceleration of digital adoption that’s been shaking up our industry over the past decade. The pace of change we’ve seen has only amplified underlying customer experience (CX) challenges, with leading …
By all accounts, 5G is off to a great start in 2021. Adoption has accelerated four times faster than previous LTE technology, resulting in 229 million 5G subscriptions worldwide as of December 2020. Yet even as users embrace the promise …
Network-as-a-Service can deliver network agility and flexibility for enterprise customers Today, we work and live in an increasingly digital world, which not only gives individuals and businesses the agility and flexibility to create, share and store information virtually but also …
Adding more spectrum and more cell sites can help operators overcome the deficit Consumer data demand is skyrocketing and is only expected to keep increasing in a 5G world. Spectrum to meet this demand, however, is not growing exponentially, giving …
With the expansion of 5G networks, industry experts are watching to see how the proliferation of 5G will stimulate the growth of wearable devices. Even without 5G, the connected wearable device marketplace doubled in size between 2016 and 2019, and it is projected to …
Open RAN vendors are racing to catch up with incumbent Single radio access network (SRAN) vendors when it comes to providing a complete, comprehensive offer. Going forward, Open RAN will be one of the foundations for building RAN, and as …
Are we at the beginning of a more integrated connectivity market? Over the past year, 5G rollout has been a major priority for communications service providers worldwide. However, something else is making waves simultaneously – satellite broadband. With the ability …
Run fast Imagine yourself in the mountains with a friend on a back-packing adventure. While watching the sun rise up between the trees, you see a bear running straight at your tent. You shout to your friend that a bear …
The conversations around, and investment in, spectrum and C-Band have accelerated rapidly. In 2020 alone, companies spent over $80 billion purchasing C-Band spectrum at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction, which covered operating licences in the frequency range of …
Shortly after LTE reached maturity, service providers started facing new challenges to meet customer demand for high capacity and “always-on” connectivity with quick set-up and transition time, spurred by diverse new applications and extremely high data usage by subscribers. To …
Vendors and communication service providers (CSP) have been discussing the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) for some time now, but so far it has amounted to little more than talking points. However, with 5G networks coming online around the globe, …
Consumer marketing of 5G feels ubiquitous right now. While the advantages of 5G are certain to eventually deliver significant benefits to consumer devices, applications, and the people who use them, enterprise customers will be first to leverage the significant advantages …
You can’t keep a good technology down! According to recent industry data, 5G is the fastest growing mobile technology in history – despite a pandemic and widespread lockdowns. Between Q3 2019 and Q3 2020, there were 225 million 5G subscribers. …
It is not often that a singular event has a profound impact on nearly every industry, but this year’s global pandemic did just that- and the telecommunications industry is no exception. In fact, in 2020, consumers and businesses relied on …
According to a new study, IoT has made the top of the list of the most important technologies of 2021. Additionally, the market for commercial and industrial IoT is booming, with manufacturing taking the largest share of enterprise IoT implementations. …
The 5G era is representative of many things – innovative new services, unprecedented speeds, new monetization opportunities and the spread of high-speed connectivity to previously untouched geographies. Yet, unlocking all this potential has been a challenge for service providers, and …
2020 saw the successful conclusion of 3.5 GHz CBRS spectrum auctions for Priority Access Licenses (PALs). Run by the FCC, the process raised $4.58 billion in bids and gave U.S. enterprises a golden opportunity to take direct ownership of their …
The coming of 5G networks represents a major advancement for the digital age—and it is coming rapidly. As of August 2020, 92 commercial 5G networks have been launched in 38 countries, according to the GSMA. Mobile data traffic is expected to quadruple …
Editor’s Note: You can read Part 1 of this piece here. Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it. Wi-Fi has never been more important than it was in …
Pandemic, social distancing, flattening the curve, positivity rates, super-spreader events, quarantining, contact tracing, respiratory droplets, PPE – when we look back on 2020, these might be the obvious reflections. With a significant amount of work, school, and life conducted from …
The hype of 5G is ushering in the potential for drastic network change and is driving service providers to prepare for the future. Today’s networks provide ubiquitous all-purpose IP connectivity to support all services. 5G, by definition, supports three major …
5G has quickly become a technology that will affect everyone everywhere. While networks are still in the early deployment phase, the worldwide rollout has already begun. Almost every day we see a new announcement on another 5G deployment. GSMA Intelligence …
Most people familiar with the Citizens Broadband Radio System (CBRS) understand the three-tiered sharing model that designates lightly licensed General Authorized Access (GAA) users to the bottom tier with the lowest level of priority. However, CBRS players are often surprised to …
Mobile network operators are investing heavily in next-generation 5G architecture. This new, more modern infrastructure puts enormous pressure on businesses to generate additional revenue. Even with subscriber taxes that offset the cost of high-speed 5G data, service providers must contend …
