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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

Telecom has become recession proof

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Roger Entner

Inflation has become a top-of-mind concern for everyone, leaving consumers, businesses, and the investment community on the edge of their seats. How are consumers reacting to the largest increase in prices of the last four decades? Which businesses get impacted …

Posted in Competition, Featured, Inflation

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

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

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