Today’s base station antennas now offer a complex portfolio of features such as multi-band, multi-port, multi-beam, active antennas, hybrid active passive configurations in MIMO (Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output) and massive MIMO types. This increa…
The base station antenna is an increasingly complex and essential part of the mobile network, and that complexity is growing as networks evolve to 5G. Considering there will potentially be 850 million 5G subscribers by 2025, competition in the mobile ce…
2019 marks the 20th anniversary of Wi-Fi, and while the technology continues to evolve, it also faces a number of difficult challenges over the coming years as it tries to accommodate the plethora of new devices, new use cases, new markets and new requi…
In many countries, the RF EMF exposure limits that MNOs must adhere to are lower than those defined by the ICNIRP guidelines. In this report, we examine how these lower limits affect MNOs’ 4G and 5G investment plans and what regulators, vendors and operat…
The US Department of Justice approved a USD26.5 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint on 26 July 2019, which forms part of a wider agreement allowing Dish to acquire Sprint’s prepaid customer base together with some spectrum for USD5 billion. This comment…
Digital Transformation 2019: 5G, AI, Big Data Analytics, Blockchain, Cloud and Mobile Edge Computing, Connected and Wearable Devices, Cybersecurity, Digital Twins and Teleoperation, IoT, Robotics, Smart Cities, and Virtual Reality
Turkcell is remaking itself as a digital service provider. A key part of its strategy is deploying its Unified NFV infrastructure (NFVI) to support 5G and new network services. This report analyses how Turkcell has used partners and a pragmatic approach t…
Mobile retail revenue will provide around 65% of the total telecoms retail revenue in 2024 in the Middle East and North Africa, a slight decline from 66% of the total revenue in 2018. This report examines the trends and drivers within the mobile service m…
Operators such as AT&T are moving IT and enterprise workloads to public clouds in recognition that it is hard to build digital infrastructure in-house. They should similarly consider whether emerging, on-premises versions of public cloud providers…
Deploying a RAN on commodity hardware opens the door for merchant processor makers in the 5G market, but comes with the challenge to reduce costs significantly while supporting extremely demanding tasks. Only a few vendors will achieve the end-to-end plat…
The provision of third-party video and music services by operators has become commonplace, and as such, only offers limited differentiation. In this report, we examine how operators can build more-sophisticated agreements with third-party service provider…