Category: Communications Networks

Futurum analysts Ron Westfall and Michael Diamond discuss Qualcomm’s Snapdragon x75 5G Modem-RF that will offer its vendors the ability to create products that take advantage of the next era of 5G connectivity, strengthening customer centricity and improving digital transformation initiatives.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines the new Ericsson Mobility Report and its indications of a brighter 5G future for CSPs across key objectives, such as generating greater 5G revenue and advancing 5G monetization capabilities, and why 5G real-world use cases, such as Day-1 connectivity for fixed and temporary sites, FWA coverage across rural areas, improved connectivity for distributed workforces, and fleet vehicle management, will significantly deliver improvements over 4G implementations, paving the way for a wider array of use cases to turbocharge the 5G value proposition in 2023.
Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer explores how Kyndryl and Nokia’s expanded partnership will benefit enterprises increasingly looking at private networks and edge computing to help them solve complex connectivity issues.
Futurum analyst Michael Diamond discusses Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon x35 5G Modem-RF system designed to power lower-end to mid-tier IoT devices that can take advantage of 5G NR-Light.
Acquisition Would Significantly Expand Mitel’s Global UC Footprint
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the Ericsson, Intel, and Microsoft demo of end-to-end SA network slicing capabilities on a Windows laptop provides the trio critical sales and marketing momentum in the lead up to MWC 2023 and incentivizes CSPs to confidently accelerate their 5G SA network expansion and broaden their 5G monetization ambitions.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Mavenir’s new Open RAN OpenBeam Radio and Converged Packet Core initiatives with AMD demonstrate that Mavenir and the mobile ecosystem are maturing and becoming more effective at delivering solutions that can swiftly advance CSP transition toward open, cloud-native network models.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new Rakuten Symphony Symworld RAN Commander solution is solidly positioned to fulfill CSP radio planning requirements to optimize their 5G network design and expansion by delivering key capabilities such as crowdsourced data, ML, and automation that can efficiently scale planning processes, predict subscriber experiences, and control costs.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess T-Mobile’s Q4 2022 and FY 2022 results and why the attainment of its highest ever postpaid account net additions as well as postpaid and broadband growth that continue to outflank Verizon and AT&T provide the warrant for its robust 2023 outlook. Factor in T-Mobile for Business’s substantial revenue upside and we find that T-Mobile is solidly positioned to meet new competitive challenges, as well as sufficiently handle any macroeconomic uncertainties that may arise on the horizon.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Juniper’s financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2022 and why they validate the company is sustaining market-wide momentum and executing its strategic vision under CEO Rami Rahim’s leadership. From their perspective, the results are impressive as Juniper delivered a second consecutive quarter of double-digit YoY growth, a record performance by the enterprise business, and its second-highest cloud revenue quarter.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the SaaS-driven ecosystem of Amdocs Subscription Marketplace diversifies the pre-integrated digital services choices of CSPs to broaden ecosystem collaboration in developing and monetizing more flexible, creative service packages including business/WFH, enhanced entertainment, streaming, security, and storage applications.
Futurum’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall assess Nokia’s fiscal Q4 and FY 2022 results highlighted by constant currency full-year net sales growth accelerating to 6% and its impressive Network Infrastructure unit performance in Q4, which grew net sales 14% in constant currency with significant operating margin expansion, all contributing toward a positive 2023 outlook.

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