I read the article on the Expansion newspaper, but you don’t need to go into it: the title says it all. Telecommunications Companies have lost one third of their revenues in the last ten years And the subtitle points out that these losses are in spite of a 50% surge …
Read More »A year of 5G has gone by. Where are we revenue-wise?
5G is being deployed in many parts of the world, and has reached some significant coverage in the North America, Europe and Far East Asia (China, South Korea and Japan). Among all these Countries South Korea is leading in terms of coverage and penetration of 5G enabled devices. Looking at …
Read More »5G may not be a game changer, private 5G might
5G has been the talk of the town of the last 2 years, now it has lost a bit of its glitter as the hard issues of balancing economics with market willingness to pay are evident. It remains both a technology push and a marketing pressure (not a market pull). …
Read More »The Internet of Senses
Ericsson has published a short report (sort of commercial for 5G) on “Hot consumer trends in 2030“. Let me say, transparently, that I would place that more in the realm of imagination than in the one of science, closer to fake news than to news (even the graphics used have …
Read More »Solving a mystery generates more questions…
Got the latest iPhone for Christmas, thanks to Santa, and was excited by the idea of checking how 5G is actually working. I browsed a few websites, downloaded some clips and didn’t feel any difference at all from the old iPhone (tapping on 4G). At that point I downloaded a …
Read More »Megatrends for this decade – III
2. Global gigabit connectivity at ultra-low cost This megatrend is actually the convergence of three: “global”, “gigabit ” and “ultra-low cost”. The quest for coverage and for performance is nothing new, as a matter of fact. the novelty is in the “quality” and “quantity” foreseen by this trend. Connectivity has …
Read More »6G enters orbit
As most Countries are focussing on accelerating the deployment of 5G China has decided to move forward and deploy… 6G. Well, as I mentioned in the series of post on 6G, 6G does not exist yet, we actually are not even sure what it will look like. One of the …
Read More »6G does not exist, yet it is already here! – XVII
OK, time to make sense of the title and in particular of the second part: … yet it is already here! The quest for bigger capacity Often we use capacity and speed interchangeably, yet they represent quite different things. The Amazon river has a huge “capacity” (209,000 cubic meter per …
Read More »6G does not exist, yet it is already here! – XV
IoT Internet of Things, IoTs, is a ubiquitous presence in today’s world, Google for it and you get numbers ranging from 20 billions to over 50 billions as of 2020. 30 billion difference in the estimate is no peanuts and it reflects both the difficulty in counting them as well …
Read More »6G does not exist, yet it is already here! – XIV
Vehicles The automotive industry, including truck manufacturing and operation, is undergoing a two major, converging, changes that will completely modify the road transportation landscape in the next decade, impacting people’s perception of value and the way they’ll look at private transportation. On the one hand we are seeing a shift …
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