Towards the end of 2021, I had written a short blog post about how home broadband would be the killer app for 5G. The post was based on a simple idea, that the killer application for every new technology is a billion-dollar application that already exists. …

The killer application for every new technology is a billion-dollar application that already exists. That sounds kind of boring, right? Shouldn’t killer apps be a bit more exciting? And as we think about 5G wireless, shouldn’t the massive investment in 5G create something revolutionary? The metaverse, perhaps? Robotic surgery? Industry…

As mobile operators step up their investment in mid-band 5G, some industry analysts are getting ready to write an obituary for mmWave 5G. They claim mmWave 5G was nothing but a head fake, cleverly engineered by operators who did not have mid-band spectrum until they did. And once 5G in…

US operators have spent almost $2 billion building mmWave 5G networks, yet these networks cover less than a few million subscribers. Does this mean that mmWave 5G is too expensive to build, or does this mean that coverage is not the right metric for judging the value of mmWave 5G? …

At Verana Networks, we are building an innovative 5G radio access network (RAN) solution for mmWave spectrum. The purpose of this post, the previous one, and subsequent ones that I will publish at the beginning of every quarter, is to share the mmWave 5G industry’s progress in the previous quarter…

At Verana Networks, we are building an innovative 5G radio access network (RAN) solution for mmWave spectrum. We believe that what we are building is pretty awesome but we know that we will not succeed without regulators who make mmWave spectrum available, service providers who want to use it, and…

Licensed mmWave spectrum has been available for more than two decades. Yet, no company has managed to build a successful business in these bands. Why will it be different now? The FCC first auctioned mmWave spectrum in 1998 (Auction 17, LMDS, 28 GHz) and sparked off a flurry of investment…

Make it ten times better, but don’t charge me a cent more! Isn’t that what every customer wants? Wireless operators and their customers (all of us) expect the same — every new generation of wireless technology should offer an order of magnitude improvement in performance, for less. So far, every…