Insights and reports

This report on mobile service packaging towards 5G aims to provide some answers and explore the business evolution opportunities for service providers.

In this edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, we highlight that mobile data traffic grew 79 percent between Q3 2017 and Q3 2018—the highest growth rate since 2013. The report also explores the role of Fixed Wire Access as one of the early use cases of 5G, cellular connectivity in smart manufacturing, and why streaming video contributes so much to mobile traffic growth.

In an industry where reliability and low latency are critical for daily operations and safety, mining is ready for transformation. Ericsson and Boliden have partnered to drill down into the business value of using 5G technology in the mine.

In this edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, we forecast around 3.5 billion cellular IoT connections for 2023 – a huge increase on our previous forecast. The report also explores network performance through the eyes of customers, smart manufacturing, machine intelligence in network management and securing the right spectrum for 5G.

In this report we are uncovering the 5G Business value to the industry when we explore the Blisk manufacturing case study. Equipping industrial sites with 5G mobile communications opens up large opportunities for operators to expand their business.

Our report, Exploring IoT Strategies, shares insights on how telecom service providers identify multiple paths to IoT revenues and maximize their opportunities within the IoT landscape. Download the report here.

Connected devices and mobile applications require wireless network access that is resilient, secure and able to protect individuals’ right to privacy. The 5G system is designed with these requirements in mind. Read our whitepaper.

Independent market research firm GlobalData has published its report, The Microwave Backhaul: Competitive Landscape Assessment, ranking Ericsson as a leader in the microwave backhaul market through its highly competitive MINI-LINK product family. Download the report here.

We turned our insights into a comprehensive guide for operators on how to start their 5G-IoT business. We outline the opportunities, the challenges and the case studies that are emerging from the digitalization of industries.

Ericsson’s network technology enables evolution from 4G to full 5G deployment through natural, step-wise implementation that balances investments, revenue streams and competitiveness while minimizing risk. Our paper outlines how. Read the new edition with expanded sections on core network evolution and spectrum strategies.

Enhanced mobile broadband will be the first commercial application of 5G and can help operators improve their consumer business. Our study reveals that the evolution to 5G can enable a 10 times lower cost per gigabyte than current 4G networks.

How will large companies use 5G within their business? That's what we asked 900 decision makers across 10 key industries. Download the report, here.

This ConsumerLab report uncovers six calls to action from consumers, which operators must act on to drive consumer satisfaction and monetize mobile broadband for a 5G future.

5G offers telecom operators an opportunity to help manufacturers build smart factories and take full advantage of technologies like automation, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and IoT.

5G is expected to play a major role in industry digitalization. For operators it's a USD 619 billion revenue opportunity by 2026. Learn about the 5G business potential across 10 industries in the second edition of our report.

Where are operators on their journey to 5G? The results of our 2017 5G Readiness Survey show how operators have progressed from 2016 in evaluating technology, creating their strategy and building their business models.

In partnership with UK operator, BT, our Scalable Network Opportunities report analyzes the economic benefits for network slicing for IoT business.

With the introduction of 5G in microwave bands, the availability and usage of microwave spectrum for fixed services will go through a major transformation in the next few years. This new report details topics such as future capacity requirements, microwave and fiber backhaul, trends in spectrum, 5G evolution and SDN for microwave.

In this Ericsson Mobility Report, we forecast 1 billion 5G subscriptions in 2023. The report explores mobile data plan trends, consumers’ 5G expectations and how event experiences can be enhanced through digitalized services.

Independent market research firm IHS published its 2017 Microwave Network Strategies and Vendor Leadership report, Global Service Provider Survey, with Ericsson topping lists across the board. Download a report excerpt here.

5G can enable operators to join the healthcare value chain. By driving transformation through services like online consultations and remote procedures, operators can improve efficiency and meet demands for greater convenience and freedom of choice.

Network slices with cloud-optimized applications are key capabilities for the 5G service delivery. Learn more about business aspects and cloud automation, here.

What makes a mobile operator successful? Frontrunners in the industry have common traits: they use different strategies to approach the market, to run their business, and are positioning themselves in relation to 5G and IoT. It’s these traits that form the core of the Growth Codes. 

Increasingly, audiences in stadiums and arenas want the ability to stream and share their experiences via mobile apps. With insight from the 2016 summer games in Rio, this report explores how to create networks that provide crowd-pleasing connectivity.

The 5G architecture will be cost-efficient to operate and have agile and flexible mechanisms in place for swift introduction of services. These properties are required to enable new business models.

PaaS provides the building blocks for automated testing, continuous deployment, as well as supporting the DevOps approach, and as such simplifies the development process and reduces time to market.

Hyperscale data centers are smarter, more flexible and enable totally new ways of running services and applications – our white paper reveals how.

We’re at the very start – not the end – of the cloud era. As industry pioneer Jason Hoffman explains, today’s dominant cloud players are actually small relative to the possibilities – and the future is there for the taking.

With new standards specifically targeting the connectivity requirements of Massive Internet of Things (IoT) applications, cellular networks can deliver reliable, secure and diverse IoT services using existing network infrastructure.

Read about how these 3GPP standardized LPWA technologies will coexist in the same networks as other 5G NR components.