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Huawei, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Ericsson Leading Patent Race in $15 Billion 5G Licensing Market
According to a new LexisNexis report, the 5G patent licensing market is now worth ~$15 billion a year. The report underscores that high-fidelity patent data has become a core business variable, with millions of dollars in annual licensing value potentially reallocated as courts, licensors, and implementers increasingly anchor negotiations, litigation strategy, and Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND)… Read more
China’s open source AI models to capture a larger share of 2026 global AI market
Overview of AI Models – China vs U.S. : Chinese AI language models (LMs) have advanced rapidly and are now contesting with the U.S. for global market leadership. Alibaba’s Qwen-Image-2512 is emerging as a top-performing, free, open-source model capable of high-fidelity human, landscape, and text rendering. Other key, competitive models include Zhipu AI’s GLM-Image (trained on domestic… Read more
Ericsson announces capability for 5G Advanced location based services in Q1-2026
Ericsson’s 5G Advanced location based services (LBS) offering is a comprehensive suite of innovations designed to redefine location-based services across commercial 5G Standalone (SA) networks. Set for release in Q1 2026, it makes Ericsson the leader in 5G positioning technology, offering a scalable and fully integrated solution on top of Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core network…. Read more
India 5G subscribers top 400 Million with rapid adoption continuing without 5Gi
With over 400 million 5G subscribers, India now ranks #2 globally (China is #1 [1.]). What’s even more remarkable is the speed of adoption after 5G spectrum auctions were repeatedly delayed. Jyotiraditya Scindia, India’s union minister for communications and development of the North Eastern Region, said the country is “setting new global benchmarks in scale,… Read more
China ITU filing to put ~200K satellites in low earth orbit while FCC authorizes 7.5K additional Starlink LEO satellites
China has submitted regulatory filings with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to put approximately 200,000 satellites in orbit. It’s part of a national strategy to secure orbital positions and radio frequencies for a massive low-Earth orbit (LEO) broadband satellite network (aka Non Terrestrial Network or NTN). The vast majority of these new satellites are from… Read more
Private 5G networks move to include automation, autonomous systems, edge computing & AI operations
A new report from PrivateLTEand5G.com analyzes the rapid evolution and expansion of global private cellular networks. The market research firm states that organizations worldwide shifted decisively from Private 5G feasibility trials to large-scale, operationally-integrated deployments. The defining theme is no longer just connectivity, but intelligent automation, with private 5G – often in 5G Standalone (SA)… Read more
NEC exits 4G/5G base station market underscoring Japan’s weak mobile infrastructure ecosystem
Japanese telecom vendor NEC has decided to cease development of 4G and 5G radio access base stations, effectively exiting a segment now overwhelmingly controlled by only five vendors (Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, ZTE and Samsung). Huawei, Ericsson, and Nokia collectively hold ~80% of the worldwide 4G/5G base station market, while NEC and Fujitsu together hold under… Read more
ABI Research: 5G network slicing market to hit $67.52 billion in 2030 with Asia Pacific in the lead
ABI Research forecasts that the global 5G network slicing market will surge from $6.1 billion in 2025 to $67.52 billion by 2030, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 70%. This represents a sharp upward revision from its 2023 outlook, which projected a market value of $19.5 billion by 2028. Editor’s Note: 5G network… Read more
Dell’Oro: RAN market stable, Mobile Core Network market +14% Y/Y with 72 5G SA core networks deployed
A recently published report from Dell’Oro Group notes that after two years of steep declines, initial estimates show that total Radio Access Network (RAN) revenue—including baseband, radio hardware, and software, excluding services—was flat outside of China and up when excluding North America. “The nearly stable results for the 1Q25-3Q25 period bolster the flat growth thesis… Read more
Point Topic: Global Broadband Subscribers in Q2 2025: 5G FWA, DSL, satellite and FTTP
Overview: Global broadband subscribers surpassed 1.53 billion in Q2 2025, marking a 1.1% growth. Broadband subscriptions[1] declined in 24 countries[2], compared to 22 in Q1 2025. In some of these markets consumers are migrating to mobile broadband, others are experiencing economic headwinds or are already highly saturated. Some are still in the midst of conflict…. Read more