One of the defining features of 5G was supposed to be its disaggregated, virtualized architecture. This was going to transform the economics of deployment by breaking apart basebands and radio heads, and virtualizing some or all of the baseband functions…

Mobile spectrum has almost always been awarded in a few large blocks with long-term, exclusive licences, almost always acquired by conventional mobile network operators (MNOs). Yet much of the increase in mobile data usage over the past decade has actually…

Many of the 5G use cases which are expected to deliver the greatest social and economic impact are inherently based around small cells. Indeed, the foundations for many of them are being laid in 4G densification, particularly where they rely…