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Challengers & Leaders in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for 4G and 5G Private Mobile Network Services?
Here’s the chart from the Gartner report: This author is astonished and perplexed that Gartner lumped service providers, network equipment makers and systems integrators into the same set of leaders and challengers. That’s like comparing apples to oranges to pineapples? Steve Saunders strongly criticized the report, noting that “Five companies lead the private 5G network… Read more
vRAN market disappoints – just like OpenRAN and mobile 5G
Most wireless network operators are not convinced virtual RAN (vRAN) [1.] is worth the effort to deploy. Omdia, an analyst company owned by Informa, put vRAN’s share of the total market for RAN baseband products at just 10% in 2023. It is growing slowly, with 20% market share forecast by 2028, but it far from… Read more
5G network slicing progress report with a look ahead to 2025
The “true” version of 5G is 5G standalone (SA), which eliminates the need for a 4G anchor network and supports all 3GPP defined 5G functions, like 5G Security, Voice over 5G New Radio (VoNR) and network slicing. As we’ve noted for years, 5G SA has proven difficult to deploy, partially because there are no standards… Read more
Latest Ericsson Mobility Report talks up 5G SA networks and FWA
Ericsson’s November 2024 Mobility Report predicts that global 5G standalone (SA) connections will top 3.6 billion by 2030. That compares to 890 million at the end of 2023. Over that same period of time, 5G SA as a proportion of global mobile subscriptions is expected to increase from 10.5% to 38.4%, while average monthly smartphone… Read more
Nokia wins multi-billion dollar contract from Bharti Airtel for 5G equipment
Nokia has secured a multi-billion dollar contract with India’s Bharti Airtel, one of the country’s leading telecom operators, which is expanding its 5G network. The deal with Airtel would be for Nokia’s latest AirScale mobile radios that support upgrading an existing network to 5G-Advanced and reduces energy costs, according to the sources. Ericsson won a… Read more
Massive layoffs and cost cutting will decimate Intel’s already tiny 5G network business
Huge Loss & Restructuring: In its August 1st press release detailing a $1.6 billion 2Q-2024 loss (mainly from it’s foundry business) [1.] Intel announced it was cutting more than 15% of its workforce by 2025 with most of those coming by year end. The company is also suspending its dividend starting in the fourth quarter… Read more
Despite U.S. sanctions, Huawei has come “roaring back,” due to massive China government support and policies
On March 30th we wrote that Huawei Technologies was back, with its net profit more than doubled from the same period last year (2023). Today, a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) news story reaffirmed that with reasons which were really no surprise! Huawei’s profit more than doubled last year, the largest jump in at least two… Read more
China Telecom with ZTE demo single-wavelength 1.2T bps hollow-core fiber transmission system over 100T bps
China Telecom, along with its partners [1.], says it has launched the world’s first live single-wavelength 1.2T bps hollow-core fiber optics transmission system with unidirectional capacity over 100T bps. Note 1. ZTE, Yangtze Optical Fibre, Cable Joint Stock Limited Company and Huaxin Design Institute were also involved in the project, which was deployed over a transmission distance… Read more
China’s mobile data consumption slumps; Apple’s market share shrinks-no longer among top 5 vendors
Mobile data demand is in a steep decline in China, the world’s largest 5G market by subscribers. China’s MIIT numbers released this week show per user data consumption (DOU) grew just 8.1% in the first half of the year. That compares to a 68% increase in 2019, the year that 5G licenses were issued. That fell… Read more
5G Advanced offers opportunities for new revenue streams; 3GPP specs for 5G FWA?
A Mobile World Live webinar on 5G-advanced upgrades identified new opportunities for network operator revenue streams, mostly due to improved network efficiencies and reduced costs. 5G Advanced, the next step in 5G evolution, will be specified in 3GPP Release 18 and 19. There is no work on it in ITU-R which is now focused on… Read more