Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are overhauling networks for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) future: investing heavily in AI solutions to address current challenges, collaborating across organizations (e.g., Artificial Intelligence Operations (AIOps)), and reforming within them (e.g., centralizing AI teams). As comprehensive as these accommodations for...
Rakuten Mobile and AST SpaceMobile partner on satellite wireless
MWC24 will be full of wireless news and announcements on what’s coming
Satellite-to-mobile wireless service is beginning. Now, Rakuten Mobile says they plan to offer this wireless service in Japan in 2026. In fact, we are seeing...
Industries reinvent themselves with new tech like 5G, wireless and AI
How strong is your company brand? Is it vibrant and well known, or is it time for a re-fresh? These days new technology like 5G, wireless and AI are changing everything. With a wide...
Greetings from the Midwest as we get ready for the Big Game. This week, after a full market commentary, we will resume our earnings analysis as we look at the state of traditional cable providers Comcast and Charter.
As we mentioned in last week’s interim Brief,...
Ongoing losses continue with cable TV, broadband to streaming and FWA
Traditional cable television and broadband services are continuing their slide. Is there is nothing the cable TV industry can seem do to stop the continued loss? This has been occurring for a decade or...
Private wireless is a great idea for both enterprise customers and telecom investors. However, there are multiple issues that first need to be ironed out to reach its potential. First, there are many different versions of private wireless. Second, there are many different companies....
Cable TV used sticky bundle over last decade to slow change
Cable television growth has crested and is now declining. Streaming TV is changing the way we get and pay for TV and entertainment. Cable TV broadband is also facing significant competition. Wireless carriers are...
Greetings from Missouri. This has been a couple of “at home” weeks prior to a travel-heavy February, which has allowed us to probe a little deeper into fourth quarter earnings. Since the last Brief, Jim’s interview with the 5G Guys podcast has been published (here and...
Mobile World Congress coming to Barcelona end of February 2024
Wireless has been with us as an industry for decades. During that time, it has always been an industry in transition. Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is coming at the end of February, and it...
Once again, wireless is going through massive changes. Today, we are in the middle of the 5G rollout, while preparing for 6G and beyond. Other new areas include private wireless, FWA, 5G Home Internet and technologies like AI, Chatbot, IoT the cloud and more....
Debating the good, the bad and the ugly about AI at Davos
There is an important topic being discussed at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. It’s about AI. This year, government officials, company executives, the media, investors and individuals are all seeing the...
Last week at CES 2024 we learned quite a bit about what’s new, what’s coming next and what technologies will be in focus going forward. It is important that every investor, worker, customer, regulator and the media understand what is happening now and what’s...
Cable TV and telephone broadband challenged by new technology
Traditional broadband is being threatened by new competitors and changing technology. It’s out with the old, and in with the new. This is both a real challenge and a new growth opportunity. FWA and satellite technologies...
Being developed for the US military, could TM solve spectrum data crunch
We use more wireless data every year, but the spectrum we use to carry that data remains limited. So, wireless spectrum shortage is a real and growing problem the industry wrestles with every...
Holiday greetings from Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri (picture is from the top of the Cranmer trail run at the Winter Park ski resort). We hope each of you have had an excellent Holiday season so far, and that your football team wins.
After a full...
Holiday greetings from the Midwest, where we recently finished up a very productive trip through St Louis and several other towns. Pictured are a few folks from the LB Networks team celebrating a terrific 2023 while Jim was in St Louis last Thursday.
This is...
Being found over noise and chaos at CES, MWC and the larger marketplace
It is important that both large and small companies along with their products or services rise above the chaos to get seen and heard in a noisy marketplace. How do they accomplish...
Private wireless, 5G-A, FWA, 5G home =internet, conversational AI
In 2023, we were blown away with breakthrough chatbot technology like ChatGPT. Today, we wonder what the top technologies will be in 2024. CES 2024 is coming in a few weeks, and we may get a...
To ignite rapid growth, private wireless confusion must be cleared up
Private wireless is so much better for companies and the enterprise than the traditional 5G wireless and Wi-Fi it uses today. It offers more security, more control, better quality, can seamlessly blend voice and...
CES 2024 shows how Generative AI collects data using wireless
Artificial Intelligence is on a rapid growth track and Generative AI is the next step in its evolution. This technology is moving forward at the speed of light. Chatbot technology like ChatGPT from OpenAI is...
Various forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are pivotal for an upcoming surge in mobile ecosystem development and revenue growth over the next couple of years. New applications, services and network efficiency enhancements will escalate demand for AI workload processing in cloud data centers, mobile-edge...
Huawei held its signature Connect event in Paris just before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Despite intense sales restriction pressure globally amid concerns related to the security of its mobile networking solutions, the company continues to defy the odds. I liken Huawei’s resilience to that...
Greetings from Missouri, where the Pattersons celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday with nearly 40 friends and family. It was a fun and festive time for us, and we hope that yours was equally as filling.
We have a very full Brief this week. After a shorter than normal...
Wireless and AI fuel autonomous self-driving revolution at #CES2024
Racing is exciting. Cheering the drivers taking their race cars around the track at breakneck speeds. But what if there were no drivers? That’s right. Autonomous self-driving race cars are here, and they are being showcased...
