Posted on Friday, February 15, 2019A few weeks ago, I introduced the topic of Private Mobile Broadband (P-MBB) networks also referred to in specific implementations as Private LTE or Private 5G. The issue in that blog was Do-it-yourself versus Managed Services and was written from the client’s perspective. Now I want to talk about the challenges for Mobile Network Operators […]
Read More Posted on Friday, February 01, 2019If 5G was listed on the stock market, this would not have been a good week. Verizon stumbled, AT&T fumbled and Nokia mumbled or at least indicated 2019 will be slow starting for the erstwhile ‘Next Big Thing’. The biggest news was Verizon’s CEO Hans Vestberg saying that their 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) product […]
Read More Posted on Friday, January 18, 2019Ken Rehbehn has started a consulting practice on what is known in the business as ‘Critical Communications’ which normally is thought of as a public safety technology. But he has expanded into ‘Business Critical Communications’ and he got me interested in the subtopic of Private Mobile Broadband Networks. Hence the title. You can see Ken’s […]
Read More Posted on Friday, November 23, 2018My last thoughts (for now at least) on the 5G business case: I do not expect to see fully autonomous passenger-car driving in my lifetime. Sorry. I have another 20 or 30 years on the planet. Maybe. Hopefully, I suppose. I do not expect to travel in an autonomous vehicle except perhaps on a closed […]
Read More Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2018Last week I made the (perhaps) bold statement that I do not consider autonomous driving a consumer 5G use case. Like home security and other similar services, consumers will not be paying a mobile operator directly for the connectivity that autonomous driving requires. They will have paid more for their car and may be paying […]
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