60% of gamers would pay 50% more a month for a better gaming experience
With gaming being hailed as a killer use case for 5G, Ribbon Communications commissioned an independent study to explore just how “killer” we’re talking. RCR Wireless News caught up with Ribbon’s...
Marketing plays a significant role in the long-term success of any company, product or service. That’s the lesson T-Mobile learned several years ago under then-CEO John Legere. Their new CEO Mike Sievert is continuing the marketing push making big claims about T-Mobile success. Let’s...
It’s said that necessity is the mother of invention. But it should not mean intervention. Such is potentially the case with the proposed effort called Open RAN or O-RAN, which offers software solutions to telecommunication networks but shouldn’t be considered a panacea to relieve...
Business demands are changing rapidly and communications service providers (CSPs) are struggling keep pace. In order to manage keep on top of and manage the demands of their customers, CSPs require automation of service and network operations.
As we’re catapulted faster than expected into a...
Integrating 5G network technology and today’s digital healthcare technology will improve patients’ access to doctors, increase the availability of the latest healthcare technologies, improve patient outcomes, and increase the efficiency of healthcare delivery.
To improve patient access and patient outcomes, and accelerate the acquisition of...
The building of 5G networks across the globe was moving full-steam ahead until COVID-19 began wreaking havoc, triggering a worldwide economic slowdown. The immediate effects have been felt in virtually every industry, causing widespread layoffs and record unemployment, and severely curtailing consumer spending. As...
COVID-19 has caused a seismic shift in demand for internet capacity with millions of students suddenly shifting to various levels of remote learning – from primary schools to universities – at the same time that many of their parents are continuing to work from...
“Productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it’s almost everything.” This oft-quoted aphorism from economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has new life in the shadow of Covid-19. Despite its hefty toll on the global economy, the pandemic presents an opportunity to refocus...
While Wi-Fi 6 and 5G may both be secure, important questions about data ownership remain
Historically, one of Wi-Fi’s biggest drawbacks, particularly in comparison to cellular, was the level of security it could offer. Unlike Wi-Fi, wireless cellular technology has the wireless security layer as...
A few weeks ago, the industry trade body representing the interests of the world’s mobile operator community, the GSMA, released a report looking at the impact of global regulators offering enterprises spectrum for the creation of private 4G and 5G networks. So called ‘set aside’ spectrum,...
Before the world was interrupted by COVID-19 and swathes of the global population went into lockdown, 5G was at the top of mobile operators’ agendas. Some businesses reported 5G delays while others maintained that their deployments were on schedule. That’s hardly surprising. The coronavirus...
Enterprise IoT will play a key role in the 5G era, bringing with it multiple revenue and monetisation opportunities for operators. Research conducted by GSMA Intelligence has shown that 5G is set to contribute $2.2 trillion to the global economy over the next 14...
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The DevOps movement inspired large, enterprise organizations with agile practices to allow developers to make quick changes, but it was very difficult to get full benefit, as their legacy development process was not designed for supporting short software development delivery cycles and frequent production...
WBA: Wi-Fi and 5G coexist on the physical layer of a network and in a way that delivers the “best connected” experience
Wireless Broadband Alliance’s (WBA) Director Bruno Tomas told RCR Wireless News that the only way in which Wi-Fi and 5G are currently being...
The evolution to 5G is off to a strong start among communication service providers (CSPs) and momentum is building. As of March 2020, 84 CSPs have announced plans to launch 5G, and 57 have already done so, according to Omdia’s 1Q20 report. These announcements...
With the advent of 5G, mobile service providers (MSPs) have an estimated 50% bandwidth growth requirements, yet mobile/wireless is only about 10% of all global bandwidth. There conservatively needs to be a 2x growth in data capacity to support 5G, yet that currently linearly...
In recent months, the telecommunications industry has been abuzz with news about various initiatives related to Open RAN. Essentially, Open RAN refers to open and interoperable interfaces within and between the various subcomponents of the RAN: the radio, hardware, or baseband unit and software....
Note, this article originally appeared as a blog post on the Guidehouse Insights website; it is reprinted here with permission. The original article can be found here.
“La ville du quart d’heure” was a key theme for Anne Hidalgo during her successful reelection campaign for mayor of...
Wi-Fi 6 and 5G share a number of features
5G, the latest generation of cellular technology, boasts potential speeds of up to 10 Gbps, a 100x increase over 4G LTE, significantly lower signal latency, as well as increased network capacity and bandwidth. These benefits, when...
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Most of the CAPEX required to build a wireless network is related to the RAN segment, reaching as high as 80% of the total network cost. Any reduction in the RAN equipment cost will significantly help the bottom line of wireless operators as they...
Corning exec cautions against thinking too short term and not thinking big enough when it comes to Wi-Fi and 5G
Corning's VP of Wireless Solutions and Product Line Management Michelle Engarto spoke with RCR Wireless News about some of the things to consider when designing and deploying...
On this episode of Well, technically... the tech podcast where women do the explaining, Qualcomm's CIO Mary Gendron explores three different definitions of digital transformation, how Qualcomm is tackling the "new normal" and what it was like being a woman following in her father's engineering footsteps.
In my previous blog, I covered the promise and potential of network slicing. Another deployment use case which has seen tremendous interest and demand is the use of private networks. With the increasing digital connectivity of devices and equipment across different industry verticals and...
Customers love using Amazon. Investors love Amazon because of their continuing growth and domination. However, the Wall Street Journal says many small businesses regret talking with and doing business with Amazon because – to take a line from Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary – they...
