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US broadband network performance during COVID-19 and beyond

Posted on November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 by Roger Entner
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Posted in 5G, Featured, UncategorizedTagged cable, covid, fiber, performance, wireless

Spoiler Alert:  There is No Broadband Nirvana in Europe

Posted on June 3, 2021June 15, 2021 by Roger Entner

Lessons from the Field

Lessons from the Field

There is broad agreement in the United States that we need to increase broadband coverage and make broadband more affordable for low income Americans. To arrive to that conclusion, it is unnecessary …

Posted in Competition, Digital Divide, Featured

Broadband for All – who pays? 71% of Americans want Google, Facebook, Amazon and the alike pay for it

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Roger Entner

Americans overwhelmingly support that broadband should be available to every American and that the funding base to achieve that should be broadened to every company that makes money through the internet.

More than 78% of respondents agreed that broadband internet …

Posted in 5G, Competition, Digital Divide, Featured, Regulation

Rakuten Communications Platform wants to conquer the world

Posted on March 1, 2021March 3, 2021 by Roger Entner

Japan’s Rakuten is the first global mobile network operators (MNO) to fully virtualize their networks, with millions of active customers on commercial service. Rakuten has taken their expertise of being a fully virtualized operator to create the Rakuten Communications Platform …

Posted in 5G, Competition, Featured, Open RAN, SDN

Different strokes for different (chip) folks

Posted on February 24, 2021March 3, 2021 by Roger Entner

In recent years, the FTC raised concerns that Qualcomm’s patent portfolio and unbiased licensing scheme would prevent other companies from manufacturing and selling 5G chipsets, leading to an anti-trust lawsuit that concluded in November 2019. However, the prediction has not …

Posted in 5G, Competition, Devices, Featured, Mergers and Acquisitions

Lessons from spectrum auctions

Posted on February 11, 2021March 3, 2021 by Roger Entner

The bidding for licenses in the C-Band auction has ended with bids of $81 billion for 280 MHz, surprising most observers. The C-Band auction exceeded the previous record holder, the 2015 AWS-3 auction, which yielded $44.9 billion. While C-band raised …

Posted in 5G, Featured, Spectrum Auction

China’s anti-trust authorities march to the beat of their own drum

Posted on February 3, 2021March 3, 2021 by Roger Entner

As China has become a major global economy and grows more assertive on the global stage, the country has discovered the power of anti-trust legislation. While created on three common pillars of fighting anti-competitive agreements between companies, the abuse of …

Posted in 5G, Featured, Mergers and Acquisitions, Regulation, Tech Boom

Attempts to Close the Digital Divide — What has worked and what hasn’t?

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Roger Entner

Over the past 15 years, there have been several government initiatives to expand the adoption of broadband in the United States. At the same time, industry has been busily focused on extending the reach and capacity of both fixed and …

Posted in 5G, Competition, Digital Divide, Featured, Regulation

European Lessons on Broadbroad — A Look at Germany

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Roger Entner

For a country that is known for being as efficient, organized, and technologically advanced as Germany, its state of mobile networks constitutes a rare black mark. Germany is the third largest economy in the world with 82 million inhabitants (double …

Posted in 5G, Competition, Digital Divide, Featured, Regulation

Mobile is Colorblind

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Roger Entner

Stay-at-home orders, school closings, and social distancing have raised the issue of the digital divide in the United States. While the availability and affordability of connectivity is important, owning a device to access the internet is equally important. Broadband without …

Posted in Devices, Digital Divide, Featured, RegulationTagged devices, Digital divide, Homework gap, mobile

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