Operators around the world are building the next and 5th generation of mobile networks. 5G is clearly an evolution, and commercial products are combinations of 4G, 5G, NB-LTE and other technologies. While 5G promises a new technological revolution, there are major regulatory challenges to deploy networks and new business models.
Strand Consult’s survey of the past 25 years of building and operating mobile networks shows that conditions for mobile operators have gotten worse, not better, for operators. The process to erect a single mobile mast/antenna can take between 12-36 months and cost €150,000 – €350,000. Policymakers and local government want to copy-paste the tower paradigm to small cell networks, a development which would kill 5G in the cradle.
While operators are stepping up their investments in spectrum, infrastructure, and technology, consumers increasingly complain about mobile coverage. Demand for data has exploded but subscriber revenues have not kept pace. As such, operators need to take concerted steps to optimize the expected benefits and costs when they deploy 5G. Operators need to learn how to rollout infrastructure, to find partners for business models, and to address the regulatory challenges that impede its business.
Around the world a number of mobile operators outsource their infrastructure (masts, towers etc) to tower companies with a classic “sale and lease back” model. It makes sense for a…
In the last three years, Strand Consult implemented a process in Denmark with the aim of ensuring mobile operators better conditions when they build and operate mobile networks. When the…
Most countries see an increasing number of customer complaints about poor mobile coverage, but the world’s mobile networks has never been better in terms of capacity and technology. Ironically, just…
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Through the years Strand Consult has held numerous strategic workshops about the mobile world and how it is developing for members – or whole boards of directors from companies in…
A survey of the past 20 years of building and operating mobile networks clearly shows that conditions for mobile operators have gotten worse for operators, not better. At present the…
For a long time Strand Consult has published reports and research notes describing the role of the smartphone in decreasing the quality of mobile coverage. To date most people blame…
Consumers increasingly complain about mobile coverage even when operators are investing in network expansion and technologies more than ever before. Mobile operators invest 10-15% of their sales budget in upgrading…
New report documents that infrastructure providers like Ericsson, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, NSN and ZTE are losing revenue due to the challenges that mobile operators are currently facing with their mobile network…
– Your choice of phone determines the quality of mobile coverage you experience. Phone manufacturers are running away from their responsibility to tell you about it. An independent study of…
– whose responsibility is it and how do we fix the problem?Mobile operators invest 10-15% of their sales budget in upgrading their networks each year. It is ironic, if not…
– whose responsibility is it, the operator or the phone manufacturer? Increasing smartphone penetration is changing the mobile market in many ways. One area is when a customer uses a…
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