9/4/2022· Telecommunication
By: Keith Malinson
Change will be huge but gradual over the next decade. With 5G yet to make its mark beyond eMBB, a second wave of growth including widespread implementation of IoT using 5G SA, and with mMTC and eURLLC including enterprise deployments, will have major impact commencing around 2025.
11/22/2022· Telecommunication
Revenue Boost For Automotive Industry From Cellular Connectivity Outweighs SEP Licensing Costs
By: Keith Mallinson
The automotive industry is being revolutionized by continuous cloud connectivity, autonomous driving technologies, drive train electrification and shared mobility. These transformations are being facilitated in part by the standardized cellular technologies now commonly implemented in “connected vehicles” or “CVs”.
5/11/2023· Telecommunication
Sharp - Not Weak Or Late Enforcement Is Required Against Recalcitrant SEP Implementers
By: Keith Mallinson
Public comments on SEPs and FRAND licensing sought for the US Department of Justice’s Draft Policy Statement and the UK Intellectual Property Office’s Call for Views.
9/6/2023· Telecommunication
Grace And Peril In Artificial Intelligence (AI)
By: Keith Mallinson
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly taking hold in many places to provide enormous benefits with improved utility and efficiency in various cellular capabilities. It is significantly affecting how networks are designed and operated. But some applications of AI are much more straightforward and less controversial than others.
12/3/2021· Telecommunication
Modest SEP Royalties On Smartphones Have Declined And Licensing Is Stabilizing
By: Keith Mallinson
Aggregate royalty payments for licensing cellular technology standard-essential patents (SEPs) in smartphones have remained in modest single-digit percentages and have declined since 2013. This defies purported concerns that the stacking of patent royalties paid to multiple licensors have led to or would lead to unreasonably high aggregate rates on mobile devices
3/22/2022· Telecommunication
Global Standard Setting At 3GPP Endangered With Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine (Analyst Angle)
By: Keith Mallinson
It took the industry 30 years to consolidate mobile communications developments into a single 4G standard with the introduction of LTE and the demise of WiMAX. That attainment—also in 5G—should be cherished; but it is imperiled by geopolitical developments.
6/20/2022· Telecommunication
Spectrum Auctions: Okay For Some, But Not For Others (Analyst Angle)
By: Keith Mallinson
A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Paul Wolfowitz, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and former President of the World Bank, controversially suggests that auctioning spectrum for 5G is detrimental to the U.S. and helps Huawei. While spectrum allocation is an important issue in industrial and economic policy, high auction fees do not appear to have impaired U.S. development and deployment of 4G or 5G.
10/4/2017· Telecommunication
5G Investment Threatened by Tech Titans Snatching Financial Growth from Mobile Operators
By: Keith Mallinson
Technology innovation by chip, device and equipment vendors plus intense competition among national oligopolies of mobile network operators has improved cellular performance and reduced costs to the enormous benefit of consumers. Meanwhile, recent financial gains in the mobile ecosystem are largely accruing to Silicon Valley's tech titans including Apple, Alphabet, Facebook and Netflix. The massive network investments required for 5G may not be forthcoming if this imbalance persists.
1/24/2018· Telecommunication
Analyst Angle: How to Provide Gigabit LTE Cheaply When You Don't Have the Spectrum?
By: Keith Mallinson
Consumers are only beginning to use LTE in unlicensed spectrum. So far chatter has mostly been about operator trials, commercial chipsets and sales of devices to seed the market before anyone is to be able to use the new service feature. Nevertheless, the commercial impact will be quite dramatic within a few years.
2/20/2018· Telecommunication
Analyst Angle: Innovation in the 5G communications platform and the IoT
By: Keith Mallinson
At a conference entitled Patents in Telecoms & the Internet of Things, at George Washington University in the District of Columbia last week, I was perturbed to hear a speaker mischaracterizing the communications standards as platforms of preexisting technologies upon which IoT innovation will occur. Major research and development investments are being made in communications technologies and standards to satisfy the anticipated demands of 5G and IoT. In fact, these investments, with significant innovations resulting already, are largely a leap of faith in advance of hoped-for IoT applications development and proof of demand for these.
by Michael J. Dreikorn
by William R. Acorn
by Ioannis Kanellakopoulos, PhD, et al
