Accounting for technical challenges in edge cloud development is critical to understanding the evolution of the edge cloud over time. This area remains ill defined today as confusion reigns in the market. Part of the reason comes from the large number of applications that benefit from edge computing. These applications come from different industry and consumer verticals, leading… Read More »
The prospects of millimeter (mmWave) 5G deployments have peaked the interest of mobile ecosystem players, investors included. While mmWave frequencies offer unmatched capacity, their coverage footprint lead to high network roll out and operating costs*. This raises questions on the financial viability of mmWave 5G. Vendors and suppliers continue to face tough decisions about supporting these frequency bands.… Read More »
Mobile network operators don’t breakout cellular IoT service revenue. They keep the numbers confidential and report only the number of connections. China Mobile broke away from this practice becoming one of the very few that publicly reports this number. It announced cellular IoT service revenue of RMB 5.2 billion (USD 736 m) in the first half of 2019.… Read More »
The mobile and satellite industries progressed along parallel path, rarely intersecting. This is because neither side could satisfy the value creation needs of the other side [see here]. However, there is a renaissance in satellite communications brought about by high-throughput satellites and improved launch economics. Entrepreneurs from outside the industry like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are planning… Read More »