Thailand is making good progress in its goal of launching commercial 5G service in 2020. The recent auction of frequencies in the 700 MHz band, the agreements between operators and telecom equipment suppliers, as well the development in academia and ...read more
Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, is expected to face an uphill battle to enable 5G. Reasons include its complex geography, unavailability of core 5G frequency band (i.e. C-band 3.3 to 4.2 GHz), and dwindling operator revenues. The...read more
Optimistic 5G forecasts assume that telcos’ spectrum needs are met Ericsson recently predicted that by 2024 5G subscriptions will reach 1.9 billion, 35 percent of traffic will be carried by 5G networks and up to 65 percent of the global populati...read more
Huawei has dominated telecom news since the arrest last December of the Chinese vendor’s CFO in Vancouver. Since then, the US Commerce Department has restricted Huawei’s access to US-built tech components, including Google’s Android ecosystem. ...read more
After taking the Indian telecom scene by storm to reach the pinnacle (by subscriber base) in just three years of commercialization, Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio) is all set to spread its wings into the booming Indian cloud market. In a 10-year deal wit...read more
Tencent posted its 2Q19 earnings on August 14, 2019. MTN Consulting's one-slide review is now available for download: MTN Consulting - Earnings snapshot 2Q19 - Tencent - Cover Image: Tencent President Martin Lau (source: Tencent)...read more
5G is moving full steam ahead in many developed economies. Recent announcements from both vendors and operators confirm this notion with news of 5G network rollouts and availability of 5G-enabled devices. Many developing nations on the other hand ...read more
About 20% of telecom's 100 or so key vendors have now reported second quarter 2019 (2Q19) results. From these early vendor results, there are modest signs of a ramp-up in 5G-related spending. Preliminary totals indicate growth of +1.9% YoY in vend...read more
After spending billions for improved connectivity on land (data centres) and sea (submarine cables), top webscale network operators (WNOs) are now looking to conquer another frontier – outer space. In April 2019, Amazon announced plans to build ...read more
Introduction In the last few years the demands from webscale network operators (WNOs, Figure 1) on transmission network architectures have changed considerably. From pure raw capacity requirements and lower costs, webscale players now prioritize h...read more