In the times when 4G arrived, the whole mobile sector was expected to gain revenues significantly due to innovative services supported by a way higher bandwidth. This effect was spoiled, however, partially by emergence of OTT (Over-the-Top) players with their competitive messaging. At the same time, customers were already thinking about new business opportunities which […]

We have been discussing earlier, that Covid-19 pandemic acted as a catalysator for 5G development, even though many experts firstly had thought it would rather prevent 5G from fast financial success. Of course, the first lockdowns slowed the path of deployment down, but soon the rates were back to normal and even higher. According to […]

Supposing that 5G is already here, we can finally question ourselves how fast it can be? Judging by the evidence from South Korea, which is so far the first country to deploy 5G widely, one can observe the average download speed of 111.8 Mbps for smartphone users which is almost 1,5 times higher than the […]

And if the first 2 “R”s are pretty cohesive and have been discussed recently, the last term might definitely confuse even the most attentive audience tracking the new generation technology deployment. Let’s get deeper into details. Due to the recent Gartner’s analyses, there’re lots of 5G-based innovative technologies to come. Obviously, anticipated two decades ago […]

We have discussed earlier the drastic increase in our dependency on connectivity which was fully realized “thanks” to the pandemic state. The grown demand was mainly associated with the raise of terrestrial networks which also transformed greatly. But everyone kept silence about equally capable submarine connectivity and how it is influenced by the pandemic state. […]

According to a research on global telco dynamics, cloud revenue undoubtedly has potential to reach $29.3 billion by 2025 with the five-year CAGR of 27%. This is pretty optimistic considering this year’s level of $8.7 billion.  Answering the question “how is this possible”, authors mention virtual network functions (VNFs), Management and Network Orchestration (MANO) and […]

There still was no much surprise when OpenRAN was listed among the most promising trends of 2020 due to the upcoming merges of telecom and fintech giants announced. Another role, which is undoubtedly, the most valuable on the state, not corporate, level is to make every particular region less dependent on the major foreign suppliers, […]

Even though the terrifying consequences of COVID cannot be overestimated in terms of ruining everyone’s social and economic lives, recent survey proved relatively optimistic attitude of major companies’ representatives toward power of digital solutions in overcoming COVID as well as further development of the industry. Talking numbers, over 40% of the survey respondents admitted facing […]

And this pressure has already got its catchphrase “automate or die”. Sounds too harsh, doesn’t it? The key idea of the research was to show that wide appearance of 5G-based solutions in all the spheres consequently seriously taxes CSP with drastically increased requirements: providers are to play a key role in a full-scale rollout of […]

Nowadays the society is highly concerned with a growing amount of large swath of communication and infrastructure applications completely swallowed by cloud-based technologies. Since most of telecom providers involved into cloud connectivity growth tend to increase Capex levels (capital spending) and bring more of intense and even rival competition, the market definitely has no reason […]