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 […]
Read More Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2018As I said last time, the juxtaposition of ‘5G’ and ‘Enterprise’ at Nokia’s recent Global Analyst Forum got lunchtime (and beer time) conversations to conclude that the 5G business case depended on the enterprise market – despite the American carriers’ race to launch consumer-market 5G as fast as they possibly can. Not only had we […]
Read More Posted on Saturday, November 10, 2018Trying to infer industry trends from a vendor’s analyst event is a mugs game: the vendor is naturally communicating its marketing priorities which do not necessarily align with a statistical view of where the market is today. Still, Nokia’s Global Analyst Forum reopened the debate about whether 5G will be driven by the enterprise or […]
Read More Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2018Last week, Telefonica announced that it was “one of the first companies in the world to have ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) guidelines to guarantee a positive impact on society”. This is indeed the first time I have seen such a thing in the telecom industry, especially from a company that does much of its business […]
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