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Metamorphosis of Qualcomm

Posted on May 15, 2023May 15, 2023 by Roger Entner

Qualcomm is the quintessential American tech company steeped it engineering excellence. Its genesis was the development of a new wireless standard called CDMA. Initially, it was written off as a failure, often ridiculed by its larger global rivals. It created …

Posted in 5G, Competition, Components, Featured, Mergers and Acquisitions, Tech Boom

Moving to the next stage of the Satellite games

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Roger Entner

AST Spacemobile (AST) and AT&T just completed the first call between a regular smartphones using just the electronics and antennas that are common for decades in mobile devices using a satellite as the cell site. AST has talked about its …

Posted in 5G, Featured, Satellite, Spectrum Auction

Cable leads in mobile, mobile leads in broadband

Posted on August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 by Roger Entner

The converged communications industry is undergoing significant change. It has been well reported that fixed wireless access has captured most of the broadband industry’s growth, followed by fiber, with cable not adding customers, while DSL gets rapidly replaced. Recon Analytics’ …

Posted in 5G, Competition, Featured

The crux of Verizon’s problems

Posted on July 24, 2022August 12, 2022 by Roger Entner

In case you are just tuning in, Verizon has been going through a rough time for about two years now. In fall 2021, it replaced Ronan Dunne as CEO of Verizon’s Consumer Group (VCG) as it struggled before filling the …

Posted in 5G, Competition, Spectrum AuctionTagged Verizon Wireless

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

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

Large scale carrier aggregation for the win

Posted on February 16, 2021March 3, 2021 by Roger Entner

The Super Bowl is not only the pinnacle of the American Football season, but it is also the show case event for wireless carrier. Every year, every wireless carrier sets aside tens of millions of dollars to improve the wireless …

Posted in 5G, Competition, Data Tsunami

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

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