Analyst Angle

With the increasing occurrence of climate change events, industries globally have had to shift their attention towards their emissions and contributions, and the telecom industry is no different. According to the GSMA’s Mobile Net Zero report, it is estimated that …

November greetings from the Midwest and Southeast, where we are hitting the road and logging many miles.  Pictured is the Vernon County, Missouri courthouse.  After a short summary of market capitalization changes over the past two weeks as well as …

News reports say AT&T share price is at a 10-year low. So let’s take a closer look at what’s happening at the company and when we can expect both recovery and growth. As a wireless and telecom industry analyst for …

Qualcomm insists on calling its product offering a “Modem-RF System” highlighting the importance of RF in achieving excellent smartphone performance, as well as the tight integration between modem and RF subsystems that can take the performance even further.  Despite the …

Facebook has been one of the most amazing success stories of all time. That being said, in recent years it has also raised much concern with regards to privacy and political freedom. They hope changing the name and brand to …

The benefits brought about by the introduction of 5G are clearly identified, notably offering higher data throughput, enhanced signal reliability and lower latency, but it is the use of 5G beyond the mobile devices ecosystem that makes this generation so …

Following two years of exponential growth, preliminary estimates suggest total 5G NR RAN millimeter (mmWave) revenue growth – including radio and baseband but excluding services – stabilized in the second quarter as the overall revenues were nearly flat on a …

During the 12th Global Mobile Broadband Forum in Dubai, David Wang delivered a keynote address called, Roads to Mobile 2030: 10 Wireless Industry Trends. Wang is Huawei Executive Director of the Board, and Chairman of ICT Infrastructure Managing Board. Huawei has …

How do you confirm your gut feelings and logical reasoning? Well, you do a detailed techno-economic study and get a definitive answer. That’s exactly what the recently published report regarding mmWave deployments from the consulting arm of the legendry Bells …

Last week the Washington Post wrote about the growing concern privacy experts are having over AI and cameras in self powered, robot vacuum cleaners like iRobot Roomba or Shark ION Robot. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The …

A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Paul Wolfowitz, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and former President of the World Bank, controversially suggests that auctioning spectrum for 5G is detrimental to the U.S. and helps Huawei. While …

October greetings from the Midwest.  Pictured is yours truly outside of the Rich Hill Café last Friday (one of the Missouri American Broadband territories).  Terrific food, excellent service and a great conversation with two of the hardest working techs in telecom (Jason …

The impact of climate change is becoming more visible and has been felt by more people around the world. It has brought about the increased occurrence of wildfires, storms and longer periods of drought. Shrinking icebergs and rising sea levels …

September greetings from the Midwest and Southeast.  Rather than show a picture of rural America (I am building up a considerable collection), this week’s opening picture is a throwback rediscovered during our recent move back to Kansas City – the …

Over the years, I have used AT&T Mobility and have found they always offered good wireless data and voice service. However, in my personal experience I am noticing it is getting harder to connect to their wireless data service. If …

Broadband is a necessity, not a luxury Over the years, there has been an ongoing argument over whether broadband should be considered an essential utility similar to that of basic utilities, such as water, light, heating, waste management and others. …

The base station antenna is an increasingly complex and essential part of the mobile network as networks evolve to 5G. The evolution from 3G to 4G and now to 5G has enabled increasing sector throughput rates and it is the …

The story of 5G in manufacturing is not new. In fact, it has been written and discussed many times, as enterprises first heard about the groundbreaking enhancements that 5G can bring to improve workflows and efficiencies almost three years ago …

Aggregate royalty payments for licensing cellular technology standard-essential patents (SEPs) in smartphones have remained in modest single-digit percentages and have declined since 2013.  This defies purported concerns that the stacking of patent royalties paid to multiple licensors have led to …

Ever since the cloud-native virtual RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN architectures have started gaining popularity, one key question both proponents and adversaries have been asking is “What about security?” Considering the massive number of services and critical applications that 5G …

Wireless smart meters have transformed the management of electricity, water, and gas supplies to homes and businesses. By some estimates, smart electricity meters have reduced electricity power consumption by approximately 5% to 15%. In 2020, there were 710 million electricity …

While the media is abuzz with the news of Samsung Foldable smartphones, being a network engineer at heart, I am more excited about Verizon and Samsung’s recent announcement about the successful completion of 5G virtual RAN (vRAN) trials using the …

T-Mobile must have thought once they won merger approval with Sprint a year ago, all their problems would be over, and they could do anything they wanted. Not so. The Department of Justice says they now have “grave concerns” about …

There are billions of IoT devices across the globe – from Google Homes and Amazon Echos to Ring Doorbells, Fitbits, Nest heaters, and more. And they are not just for consumers – many industries and businesses are implementing IoT to …

Huawei Technologies reported a 29% revenue drop during the first half of 2021. With all the turbulence, this was not totally unexpected and has occurred for a variety of reasons. However, it all started with the pressure exerted by U.S. …