One of the most often asked questions I get these days is how to punch your way through all the noise and chaos, and be seen and heard? This is asked for trade shows like the upcoming CES 2025, MWC 25 and in fact,...
December greetings from Fraser, Colorado (picured), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Kansas City, Missouri. We hope the Holidays have been restful and enjoyable for each of you, and that 2025 brings professional and personal growth.
For the first time in a long time (11 consecutive years...
Wi-Fi has been with us for decades. It remains one of the most important and valuable technologies in the wireless world. Most technologies have a limited life span. (You remember the fax machine and iPod, right?) But Wi-Fi never seems to go away. In...
December greetings from Cedar Rapids and Kansas City. The opening picture is of the Christmas tree perched atop the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids. Not only was this a pleasing sight this week, but they were manufacturing a version of Cap’n Crunch that made the...
Wireless is evolving with AI, 5G, private wireless, wireless broadband
At upcoming events like CES 2025 and MWC 25, we will see some of the new directions the wireless industry is heading. Since its beginning in the 1970s, wireless has grown and changed many times....
During the spring of 2020, many telecom stores closed temporarily amid the spread of the coronavirus. Wave7 Research in late March 2020 reported that “an estimated 55% of national carrier stores have been closed, including 75% of Sprint stores and 80-90% of T-Mobile stores....
In the private 5G market, many applications are waiting for IoT devices to be ready. RedCap devices are very slow in coming to market…despite standards frozen more than two years ago. Some applications are starting to move ahead with the early devices…but any...
What is happening to the world of cable television?
Once upon a time, way back in the 1990s, Comcast was one of many tiny cable television providers, run by Ralph Roberts. Back then, the original AT&T acquired Telecommunications Inc. TCI was the largest cable TV...
Only exclusive licensing of additional mid-band spectrum for full-power use can provide sufficient radio propagation and received-signal strength to deliver the increased cellular data capacity required across entire national networks. Alternatives, including low-power unlicensed, medium-power shared and millimeter wave spectrum that require extensive network...
Private wireless, particularly private 5G, is becoming a hot, new growth opportunity in telecommunications for a variety of reasons. Some of these are long-term while others are short-term. Let’s take a closer look at this sector, who the leaders are today and what we...
November greetings from Cedar Rapids and Kansas City. The picture will be a familiar sight for those in the fiber industry. Yes, we are getting a second fiber to the home (FTTH) provider for our 28-home community. The market is getting crowded in some places (the...
In the 1990’s I was a member of an advisory committee to U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. That was back in the President Clinton era. Over several years, as I got to know him better, I learned much about Washington...
ABI Research explores how AI and 5G are transforming telco security operations
Over the last few years, telco operators have been undergoing a slow but sure metamorphosis from simple connectivity providers to digital technology enablers. In part fueled by 5G network rollouts and the growing...
November greetings Cedar Rapids, Kansas City, and Iowa City. The opening picture was taken from Kinnick Stadium after the first quarter (note the “Hi Kids” sign on the scoreboard – more on the Hawkeye Wave tradition here), where the University of Iowa Hawkeyes thumped the...
Recently, I had an interesting conversation with Mikko Uusitalo who leads the private networks Europe division of Boldyn Networks, a shared networks infrastructure provider. Still learning more about them. So, let's take a closer look at what they are doing right and what new...
Recently I was talking with a friend about the need for the mobile industry to pivot. If we can successfully pivot from the consumer to the enterprise, then the industry can grow for the next 20 or 30 years.
But as we talked, I realized...
Decades ago, wireless was a new treasure trove filled with small companies with big ideas and lots of growth opportunity. Today, after years of consolidation, growth and change, things are very different. After starting with lots of small companies, today we now have three...
5G has continued to expand its presence across markets and drive adoption. 5G adoption in the top 30 cellular markets is accelerating, from 1.52 billion to a forecast 4.20 billion by 2029. As 5G coverage and bandwidth have increased, we have also seen a...
The mobile industry is a strange place. First, we give our technology a name. Then a bunch of engineers develop ideas for about ten years. Finally, we hand the new technology over to the business people and they decide whether to invest...
When will significant growth in wireless start-up once again?
Today, the wireless industry seems stuck between growth steps. In fact, this problem has been haunting the industry over the past decade. Normally, this happens at the end of one G cycle like 5G, before moving...
October greetings from Boston, Cedar Rapids, and Kansas City. It was great to meet with Troy Doom, the CEO of Ice House America, one of Fort Point Capital’s investments (more on the company here) in Boston earlier this month. Third quarter earnings start next week...
Where is Private Wireless or Private 5G today? Let’s take a closer look at the current state of this new segment. Look at some of what is working, what is not, the risks, challenges and the growth opportunities. There is quite a bit of...
Verizon Value Brands and MobileX both cut a high profile at the All Wireless & Prepaid Expo and the expo also provided a venue for some spirited exchanges between carriers. The conference was held in Las Vegas in late August.
Verizon Value Brands and MobileX...
Open RAN revenue dropped by 83% in 2024 compared with 2023. Whoa. Let’s take a closer look at that. Why did revenue crater? And how will it bounce back?
During ’22 and the first half of ’23, DISH was spending heavily, deploying radios to satisfy...
