GMSA Intelligence sees substantial cost savings when comparing 5G fixed wireless access with fiber-to-the-home
Bridging the digital divide is a focus of governments and operators around the world. The primary stumbling block is finding the right balance between conducive policy and incentivization with economic feasibility...
When it comes to 5G and spectrum, there are a lot of complicating factors at work. While previous generations of cellular technologies typically brought new spectrum into play, 5G is making use of familiar sub-6 GHz frequencies that have been foundational to cellular networks,...
With 5G deployments well underway around the world and the technology beginning the shift from its first, Non Standalone iteration to end-to-end 5G, the focus of standards work continues to look ahead to enhancements yet to be achieved in this generation, while researchers and...
Carriers face a number of operational challenges as 5G continues to evolve and mature, both in terms of deploying and running new 5G networks as well as in managing the relationship of those new networks to existing 4G networks. In a Test and Measurement...
How should operators handle test and measurement as network automation is introduced?
Ask any 5G operator or vendor what the operational end-state of increasingly complex network and service models is supposed to be. They’ll likely tell you the goal is to automate anything that...
Oracle exec: 'The 5G standalone core network was always the main act in this show'
Andrew De La Torre, group vice president of technology at Oracle Communications, expressed some disappointment that the industry hasn’t moved faster on 5G Standalone (SA), mostly because doing so is...
On January 19th 2022, Verizon and AT&T activated their C-band networks, and in doing so, finally shook up the 5G dynamic in the U.S.
At the end of last year, an Ookla report positioned the U.S. as the world leader for 5G availability, but when...
The move to Standalone 5G means technological and organizational changes with the latter perhaps more difficult
As some operators begin to operationalize Standalone 5G, it’s clear there are different strategies, based on spectrum deployment, network modernization and other factors, that inform this key network evolution....
Many industry experts consider global SA progress to be surprisingly slow
As of January 2022, GSA reported that 99 operators in 50 countries worldwide are investing in public 5G Standalone (SA) networks in the form of trials, planned or actual deployments and that 20 operators...
Deloitte is seeing 'a lot of experimentation' around private network deployments
Private cellular networks for enterprises are considered a major monetization opportunity for communications service providers (CSPs) to set up bespoke networks in support of industrial internet of things projects, as long as they carefully...
5G offers communications service providers more range in the types of services their networks can efficiently support -- but that flexibility also means some additional complexity comes along.
Jason Elliott, head of CSP portfolio and partnership marketing at Nokia, likens 5G to a...
‘A business’ most valuable assets are data, data and more data'
Delivering enterprise-level digital transformation is proving to be a key 5G monetization strategy for operators. This approach, however, comes with a host of cybersecurity implications around things like data privacy and anomaly detection. In...
Constraints on the supply chain are disproportionately impacting the non-advanced chipset market, signaling a particular challenge for 5G
Global supply-chain constraints, driven mostly by the COVID-19 pandemic, are continuing to impact nearly every industry, even as much of the world is returning to pre-pandemic life....
There is a long journey ahead for 5G monetization but CSPs can start by tuning up their networks to deliver the best experience possible
5G is setting the stage for a boom in cellular use cases that extend beyond those in the consumer segment, creating...
Network slicing is a primary feature of Standalone 5G but E2E orchestration of the network and services presents challenges
Operators are facing challenges along multiple vectors with the complementary yet distinct transitions to Standalone 5G, disaggregated network systems, and cloud-native operations. At the same time,...
Oracle on automation as key to operationalizing and evolving 5G
The continued evolution of 5G is very much an exercise in rapidly increasing network and service complexity. On the network side, the shift to cloud architecture, cloud-native core, edge clouds and RAN virtualization make...
Competitors are focused on FWA and MEC as routes to 5G monetization
With operators spending billions to deploy, package and sell connectivity-backed solutions, 5G monetization has moved front-and-center in operator's messaging. Verizon, for instance, recently laid out its three-year service revenue outlook and sees fixed...
Seven out of 10 businesses plan to invest in edge computing in the next 12 months, and eight out of 10 believe that 5G is "indispensable" to reaping benefits from edge, according to a new report from Google Cloud and Omdia.
The report is based...
5G monetization hinges on partners, ecosystem, and delivering business outcomes
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Operators have invested billions in designing and deploying 5G networks but, to date, meaningful new service revenues have proved...
What is the reality of 5G's power needs? RCR Wireless reached out to Ian Campbell, CTO of cable and mobility at Cisco’s Service Provider segment, for his thoughts on the matter. This Q&A was conducted via email and has been lightly edited for length...
