Open RAN: The Future, not the Present
Open RAN (Radio Access Network) technology is going to be important in the 6G era, from 2028 onwards. But in the meantime, like everything about 5G, it is overhyped. I’m…
Roslyn Layton - Tech and Innovation Policy Research of US, EU and China
Roslyn Layton, PhD is a Visiting Researcher at Aalborg University Center for Communication, Media, and Information Technologies and a Vice President at Strand Consult, both in Denmark. She focuses on evidence-based policy for information, communications, and digital technology industries. Using empirical methods, she assesses regulations and policies for digitally connected domains such as cybersecurity, mobile wireless, telecom, cable, internet, online advertising, e-government, media, software, financial technology (fintech), and telehealth, among others.
How well is 5G shaping up?
Enthusiasm continues to run high for 5G. Many believe that it is a revolutionary generation, delivering a massive change in connectivity and revolutionising our lives. Much of this enthusiasm is…
Eight false assumptions on which national broadband plans are based
Broadband is good, the nation is a positive notion and most good things need a plan. If we put these three things together the result is a national broadband plan….
ApplePay: Reshaping the world of payments and banking
In 2003[1] when the Apple iTunes service was launched somebody I know stated “perhaps in 10 to 15 years” we will get our salaries paid through iTunes, and we will…
Day 1 Of C-Band Spectrum Auction Raised $2 Billion
The highly-awaited C-band auction for the 3.7-3.98 GHz began December 8, raising $2 billion in gross bids from dozens of bidders in the mobile, telecom, satellite, and fixed wireless space….
COVID Will Not Delay The FCC‘s 5G Spectrum Auction
Telecom regulators in Europe, some 2 years behind on 5G, proffer COVID as an excuse to further delay spectrum actions. Meanwhile the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) speeds ahead. The lockdown…
Thune: Time To Update Federal Spectrum Policy For 5G
U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, convened a hearing titled, “The State of U.S. Spectrum Policy,” on July 23, 2020. It examined the…
GPS Interference Fears Are Today’s Y2K, Says Former UK Spectrum Director
I caught up with Dr. William Webb, former director of Ofcom, the telecom regulator of the United Kingdom where he led the Spectrum Framework Review, the development of Spectrum Usage…
How Much Spectrum Should Be Unlicensed?
The answer is somewhere in between zero and 100 percent. A spectrum license allows its holder to operate within a portion of the radio spectrum with interference and crowding, a…
National Security Experts Support FCC 5G Spectrum Plan Voted Today
National security and defense, the protection of the nation state, its citizens, economy, and institutions, is an essential duty of government. Safeguarding the nation state includes a range of activities…
On Spectrum, NTIA Sides With Bureaucracy Against 5G And The FCC
The US is engaged in a global race to 5G which promises a new trillion-dollar economy with millions of jobs. While the US may have millimeter wave spectrum deployed, makers…