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‘Le Tour de 5G’
BLOG, 5G, France, millimeter-wave spectrum, Spectrum AuctionsThe future of 5G in France has been the topic of several public policy and regulatory initiatives following the country’s early auction of 700 MHz spectrum for mobile services in 2015. However, despite early progress and the best inten...
Germany to Unlock 5G mmWave
BLOG, 5G, BNetzA, Germany, millimeter-wave spectrum, mmWaveIn June 2019, Germany’s national telecoms regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) conducted an auction of 5G frequencies in mid-bands, including 3.5 GHz. BNetzA is now planning the release of high-band 26 GHz spectrum for 5G. This wo...
5G in Post-Quarantine Europe
BLOG, 5G, COVID-19, economic recoveryWith Europe’s biggest countries using lockdowns and quarantines to battle the spread of the coronavirus, the importance of mobile networks has become more apparent than ever, as people work, study, and shop for essentials from home, re...
Spectrum Pricing Trends in mmWave Bands
BLOG, Auctions, millimeter-wave spectrum, mmWave, Spectrum, Spectrum AuctionsCountries across the world have been releasing new spectrum for 5G deployments in millimeter-wave spectrum bands (mmWave), while others are planning to do so soon. Although a few governments have awarded mmWave spectrum via administrati...
Let 5G Be All That It Can Be
BLOG, 5G, millimeter-wave spectrum, mmWaveHow can we achieve data speeds 10x faster, latency 10x lower, and support a much higher density of simultaneous Internet of Things (IoT) connections in 5G than in 4G? Electronic communications regulators are awarding millimeter-wave (mmW...
U.S.-China Schism Pressures Wireless Standards
BLOG, 5G, 6G, china, millimeter wave, millimeter-wave spectrum, Wireless standardsWill the current geopolitical tensions affect the wireless industry’s ability to maintain single global technology standards? Technology companies choose to compete within a single standard or engage in battle-of-standards. Beyond compa...
Can Alcântara Compete Against Kourou?
BLOG, Brazil, France, satellites, Space technologyTwenty-years ago Brazil signed a space-technology safeguard agreement (TSA) with the United States. It was intended to be a preamble for American companies to launch satellites from Brazil’s Alcântara Space Center, well-positioned at ...
Technology Leadership and Human Freedom
BLOG, international conflict, spaceWhen cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go to space on April 1961, it was an embarrassment for the U.S. and a coup for the Soviet Union, who leveraged it as an indication that the USSR had the technology lead and communism ...
Who’s Winning the 5G Race?
BLOG, 5G, Geopolitics, Huawei, IoTThe fifth generation of mobile technologies comes in a very different international environment than previous ones: 2G emerged in the late 1980s when the Cold War was ending; 3G in the early 2000s as China entered the world trade system,...
How Mobile Money Saved Zimbabwe
BLOG, Financial technology, Fintech, mobile money, ZimbabweEcoCash is the financial technology service of Econet Wireless, the largest mobile operator in Zimbabwe. Launched in 2011, today the service covers close to 80% of the adult population in the country, allowing a range of financial trans...
Technologies That Help Democracy Work
BLOG, Brazil, smart city, smartcity“We had no other option–we had no money,” Luciano Rezende told me when I asked him why he started a smart-city program in his town. Mr. Rezende is the Mayor of Vitória, a beautiful island-city of 400,000 people and the state capit...
African Telecom SOEs and China
BLOG, Africa, chinaDoes Chinese funding encourage state ownership of African telecom enterprises? We should be taking a closer look at the relationship between Chinese vendor financing and the multitude of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in African telecomm...
A 5G Network Cheaper Than Huawei
BLOG, 5G, Huawei, vRANThe Trump Administration’s recent telecom networks security executive order, which has the practical effect of a comprehensive ban on Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE, is just one of the significant challenges China is facing ...
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