Wireless Infrastructure

OVERVIEW

For all the promised additional value delivered by 5G, investment in mobile is still fundamentally a matter of triangulating spectrum, sites and RAN technology to enhance capacity and coverage for data traffic. The research in this programme pulls together Analysys Mason's long-standing coverage and analysis of wireless traffic, spectrum and RAN technologies and adds a further dimension: sites/coverage. The programme delivers key data on the economics and trade-offs of mobile network investment.

KEY THEMES

• Site sharing/towercos
• Spectrum sharing
• Infrastructure densification/small cells
• Mobile traffic analysis and impact of FWA, Wi-Fi substitution
• Network stress: bytes / (Hz*sites)
• Spectrum valuation trends

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

Strategy reports: key issues

• COVID-19: operators should be concerned about the robustness of networks rather than capacity

• Mid-band spectrum is important for 5G networks

• European regulators are taking contrasting approaches to enterprise 5G spectrum

Forecasts, datasets and primary research

• Wireless network data traffic: worldwide trends and forecasts 2018-2024

• Fixed network data traffic: worldwide trends and forecasts 2019-2025

• Spectrum quarterly newsletters

• Spectrum Auction Tracker (quarterly)

COMING IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS

Strategy reports: key issues

• Towards the end of network stress: traffic, spectrum and site density in the 5G era

• Dynamic spectrum sharing for 5G

Forecasts, datasets and primary research

• Wireless network data traffic: worldwide trends and forecasts 2019-2025

• Spectrum quarterly newsletters

• Spectrum Auction Tracker (quarterly)

• Spectrum and site asset database

• Network Sharing Agreement database