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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

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

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

Tipping the scales of innovation

Posted on January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 by Roger Entner

When Nvidia announced that it was in the process of buying Arm from Softbank, many analysts and industry observers were exuberant about how it would transform the semiconductor industry by combining the leading data center Artificial Intelligence (AI) CPU company …

Posted in Competition, Devices, Mergers and Acquisitions, Uncategorized

Tipping the scales of innovation

Posted on January 21, 2021March 3, 2021 by Roger Entner

When Nvidia announced that it was in the process of buying Arm from Softbank, many analysts and industry observers were exuberant about how it would transform the semiconductor industry by combining the leading data center Artificial Intelligence (AI) CPU company …

Posted in 5G, AI, Competition, Components, Devices, Mergers and Acquisitions, 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

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