5G requires additional CAPEX investments, and it’s arriving at a time when telecom companies are feeling the pinch. But to Salesforce’s Steve Mannel, the real ROI for 5G won’t come from consumers — it will come from building an enterprise ecosystem. Below is a transcript of this conversation. Some parts... Read More
The term ecosystem is bandied around almost as often as “You’re on mute,” during the explosion of video conferences of late. However, the difference is the mute thing is pretty obvious whereas the ecosystem angle depends heavily on your start point and background. Common terms include open, multi-stakeholder, federated, frictionless,... Read More
The FAANGS are out and telecom companies don’t want to get bitten. But as giants like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google build their next generation services on 5G, how does a telecom company go from “dumb pipe” to smart collaborator? Stephen Rose of Bell Labs says the industry has... Read More
What the future of healthcare can build upon is the ability to bring a high level of expertise and analysis into everyone’s homes. Read More
Hello? Is it 5G you’re looking for? With all the excitement about how 5G will enable us to download movies in seconds, or drive innovation in IoT, or take autonomous vehicles into the mainstream, it’s easy to forget that sometimes—just sometimes—people might actually want to make calls on 5G as... Read More
Like the rest of the world, Latin America is adopting 5G. Its roll-out may not be as fast as we’ve seen in Asia and Europe, but Omdia’s Wally Swain tells Michael Hainsworth, it’s accelerating the region’s evolution to Industry 4.0. Below is a transcript of this conversation. Some parts have... Read More
The Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) auction for Priority Access Licenses (PALs) in the 3.5 GHz spectrum that the FCC closed in August 2020 was no ordinary auction for mid-spectrum. The license holders have to share the spectrum with incumbent users and also opportunistically use at least 80 MHz of... Read More
The spotlight is still on 5G, but the network transformation that is underway is much wider in scope and goes deep into all parts of our connectivity infrastructure, in which wireless and wireline are now converged. But it is only by a well-concerted evolution of the entire network infrastructure and... Read More
Being able to switch between 4G and 5G while using the same spectrum band makes it possible for some operators to deploy 5G without having to wait for valuable mid-band spectrum to become available. Read More
Social distancing. Shelter in place. Stay home. These are the phrases we all live by right now. With everyone at home and online, the connectivity we take for granted as being always available is under pressure, trying to deliver everything to everyone virtually, simultaneously and constantly. To stay connected while... Read More
to Florian Groene, a partner at PWC in New York, and business strategist Hans Geerdes from Nokia Software HQ in San Jose, the new normal offers opportunities for telecom providers to reinvent their relationships with their customers. Read More
The same pandemic that has many businesses pausing their 5G deployments may end up proving to them just how much they need the technology to survive and thrive post-COVID-19. So when companies do resume their 5G investments, how can CSPs position themselves to compete for their business in an increasingly... Read More
