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Caroline Gabriel

Caroline Gabriel

Research Director & Co-Founder at Wireless Watch

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Huawei's reinvention highlights risks of all-out US/China hi-tech cold ... - Rethink Research

Necessity is the mother of invention, so the old saying goes, and that certainly appears to be true of Huawei. Battered by US sanctions that severely restrict its access to advanced semiconductors and software, it has reinvented its business with remarkable speed, given its size and complexity. It has defocused on its previous largest business, mobile devices, which is hardest hit by the trade restrictions, at least while it builds up its own platform – the Harmony mobile operating system and ac…
almost 3 years ago
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As the MBB business case stagnates, 5G IoT innovation accelerates ....

Smartphone sales are falling and mobile broadband ARPUs are stagnant – these trends worsened by the current state of the global economy, but they were visible before. Mobile heavyweights insist 5G is driving growth, but looking at the detail behind their pronouncements, it is clear that most of the uptick is not coming from traditional handset-driven mobile data. NTT Docomo of Japan pointed to successes in enterprise networks during its most recent quarter, while its mobile business as a whole d…
almost 3 years ago
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Qualcomm aims to expand 5G reach with world's first 5G NR Light ......

Qualcomm has unveiled its Snapdragon X35 5G modem chipset, the first commercial product to implement elements of 5G NR Light (also known as reduced capacity or RedCap). The chipset is pitched at connectivity for smaller handheld devices and wearables, falling between full mobile broadband use cases and very low-data-rate IoT applications. It comes with an accompanying X32 5G modem-to-antenna system. 5G NR Light was introduced in the most recent 3GPP standards release, Release 17, and will evolve…
almost 3 years ago
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MWC will provide many clues about the next generation of mobile ......

As Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 looms, minds inevitably turn the future. Though the real-world launches and major deals that happen in Barcelona will be firmly focused on the near-term challenges of 5G deployment and monetization, the event is also a forum for discussion of what may come next. Some of that will be ill-defined or merely hype, but such debates are also important for vendors and operators to understand what they may need to build into their technology roadmaps now, in order t…
almost 3 years ago
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Docomo leads in new materials and haptic platforms on path to 6G .....

New materials will be as important to next generation connected experiences as new network technologies, enabling a new generation of devices and equipment that could fulfil the ‘metaverse’ dream of absolutely ubiquitous connectivity and AI-based responsesiveness. The Japanese mobile ecosystem is often in the forefront of developments that borrow from materials science as well as radio engineering. Kyocera and NEC, for instance, have been pioneers in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS – se…
almost 3 years ago
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US operators progress with O-RAN, but with their own approach ... -...

In its most recent analysis of the state of the RAN market, research firm Dell’Oro Group pointed to “stronger-than-expected O-RAN progress in North America”, which had boosted the company’s overall outlook for the technology. It now predicts that Open RAN will account for 15% to 20% of global RAN by 2027.” The big question is how far AT&T and Verizon, in particular, will assemble their own Open RAN platforms and ecosystems, with their own intellectual property, rather than adopting vanilla speci…
almost 3 years ago
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Patents remain a source of power, but is the 5G process fit for ......

Periodically, the wireless industry headlines are dominated by high profile patent licensing disputes, such as the recently settled one between Ericsson and Apple. Now, Nokia and Samsung are the latest to announce a deal (see below), this one concluded more amicably than their previous cross-licensing arrangement. These deals serve to remind us of the huge power that comes from large-scale ownership of intellectual property, especially of standards-essential patents (SEP). Ericsson’s most recent…
almost 3 years ago
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Dish raises more financing as it chases 5G targets amid subscriber ...

Dish Network’s repeated claims to be building a very low-cost 5G network have been cast into doubt on several occasions over the past year, when the operator has been forced to seek new funds. Most recently, Dish finalized a $2bn debt offering in November, and now it is planning another one, this one involving about $500m of its senior secured notes. Much of the proceeds are expected to go towards further build-out of its greenfield, cloud-native 5G network, and the notes will be secured by Dish…
almost 3 years ago
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T-Mobile cuts jobs but may acquire MVNO Mint, as spend priorities ....

Last week we analyzed the capex slowdown that will affect the three leading US operators from this year. Now further details are emerging about T-Mobile’s spending plans for the year, with a focus on reducing headcount and potentially acquiring an MVNO called Mint Mobile. Of the three main operators – Verizon and AT&T being the leaders – T-Mobile USA’s reduction in spending is the most positive, in the sense that it stems primarily from near-completion of its 5G coverage and 5G Standalone projec…
almost 3 years ago
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Cellnex will embark on its radical new growth strategy without its ...

Cellnex’s CEO Tobias Martinez will leave the top job this summer, in line with a radical new strategy by Europe’s leading pure-play tower operator. Cellnex will reduce its reliance on expansion by acquisition of other towercos or site portfolios, as its aggressive M&A-driven growth of the past few years will inevitably slow because of regulatory scrutiny, and the law of diminishing returns – the biggest and most attractive deals will have been done and the remaining prospects will be smaller and…
almost 3 years ago
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USA's 5G capex bubble will burst this year as three main operators ...

The revenue boost that the mobile equipment and software vendors – especially Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung – have enjoyed in the USA will soon be sharply reduced. T-Mobile USA, while announcing a very strong 2022 for business, also said its expansive 5G build-out had achieved a high degree of scale and it would reduce its capex sharply from 2023. AT&T, which had a far more mixed year in 2022, has already talked about capex reductions, as has Verizon, and AT&T set out a cost-cutting program at the…
almost 3 years ago
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Huawei in turnaround mode while Ericsson plans to cut software ... ...

If we judged only by the two largest network vendors’ first statements of 2023, we might see a surprising role reversal looming. Ericsson, after a generally robust year in 2022, said before the holiday that it expected the RAN market to be flat for at least three years, and has now announced it will trim back its relatively new cloud and software business unit. Meanwhile Huawei, which has been struggling the face of trade sanctions and 5G operator defections, claimed it had halted its revenue de…
almost 3 years ago
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Telefónica to work with hyperscalers on revenue-generating API ... ...

Most of the world’s largest operators are considering their future relationship with the major US hyperscalers and seeking to leverage various assets, such as the potential edge compute/5G combination, to strike an improved balance of power. Telefónica is reported to be in talks with Amazon AWS, Google and Microsoft to support a platform for marketing application programming interfaces (APIs). Open APIs will be foundational to future connected software platforms and will underpin immersive, join…
about 3 years ago
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Mobile industry will be reshaped by decline of globalization - Reth...

Special Report: National 5G objective For now at least, the era of globalization is coming to an end, hastened on its way by the pandemic, by wars in various arenas, by supply chain and skill shortages with associated inflation, by environmental concerns, and by the new geopolitics. National and pan-regional governments are retreating behind their borders, allying with geographical neighbors and seeking to assert firm control of their own security, data and value chains. No industry is more inhe…
about 3 years ago
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EdgeQ wins Vodafone trial for its RAN accelerator chip, but AI focu...

Arguably the biggest challenge in opening up the RAN will be in the semiconductor layer. Traditional RANs run on baseband processors designed by the proprietary equipment vendors specifically to perform RAN tasks. Ericsson sees the performance of these special-purpose chips as fundamental to its networks’ performance. Far from being ashamed of not adopting open processors, it has even adopted an ‘Ericsson Silicon’ brand, reminiscent of ‘Intel Inside’, to emphasize the differentiation. But the Op…
about 3 years ago
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China awards first industrial spectrum to chase national 5G goals -...

China is one of the world’s most advanced countries in deploying 5G to support large-scale enterprise and industrial services. There are many case studies of innovative solutions, based on 5G Standalone, being applied to factories, property developments, venues, smart cities and many more. The gover…
about 3 years ago
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Europe's 'Gang of Five' plan to develop an open telco cloud platfor...

Two years ago, five leading European operators – Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia (TIM), Telefónica and Vodafone – signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in developing a Europe-centric Open RAN platform and ecosystem. Now, the same group is collaborating on another project that could increase regional strength in a strategic technology area – R&D for a telco cloud stack for Europe. The work will be carried out under the auspices of open source body Linux Foundation Europe. Lik…
about 3 years ago
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ARM rains on Qualcomm's PC chip parade with new lawsuit claims ... ...

ARM, the dominant force in mobile processor intellectual property, is in a particularly strange phase of its history. The planned IPO of the firm by Japanese parent Softbank seems to have been delayed by the economic crisis, beyond the first quarter of 2023. And it is engaged in a legal battle with one of its biggest licensee customers, Qualcomm. The latest twist came last week, in the middle of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, at which the US chip giant launched the latest flagship in it…
about 3 years ago
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5G will take years to dominate, and coexistence with other networks...

Special Report: 5G isn’t everything In the mobile industry, the focus on 5G is so strong that it’s easy to forget that other networks are currently still more important in terms of adoption rates and revenues. As we start to speculate on what 6G will look like, even the 5G-centric GSMA does not ex…
about 3 years ago
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Breakthroughs in millimeter wave range make this spectrum useful .....

Special Report: 5G in millimeter wave In the run-up to 5G deployment, there was intense excitement about millimeter wave spectrum. The huge capacity in the frequency bands above 20 GHz would enable superfast speeds, enabling new applications and revenue streams; and it would accelerate moves towards flexible usage plans such as dynamic sharing because of the sheer amount of spectrum in play. That in turn could drive down the cost of spectrum, which is a key challenge to the 5G business model i…
about 3 years ago
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Rakuten replaces Red Hat with open source Rocky Linux OS - Rethink ...

Rakuten Mobile had already dealt a blow to Red Hat’s hopes of leading the Open RAN cloud layer in May, when it said it would replace its initial partner with the Robin.io orchestration and cloud automation technology (Rakuten has also acquired Robin.io). Now it has announced further distancing from Red Hat, replacing its Linux operating system with Rocky Linux OS, from open source distributor CIQ. Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony, claimed the change would reduce the cost of…
about 3 years ago