Mobile Experts Marks the End of the G String

Wireless costs will not drop in the 6G cycle

CAMPBELL, Calif., Feb. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile Experts published a new report this week, titled "Cost per GB Forecast for 6G". Available for immediate download, this report spells out the fundamental economic rationale for sweeping strategic changes in the mobile/wireless market.

The analysts at Mobile Experts have been working with multiple mobile operators to understand the cost of mobile networks, including up-front capital costs as well as several years of operational costs. For thirty years, the cost per GB of mobile data has dropped steadily due to improvements in technology and wider bandwidths. However, technology has reached its natural limit (Shannon's limit) and new spectrum allocations appear to be weak for new mobile services.

As a result, the cost per GB in 6G will be higher than the cost per GB for 5G in some countries, and not in other countries. Spectrum policy will play a major role in determining the value of a 6G network.

"For decades, cost reductions from increasing bandwidth have been like Moore's Law for the wireless industry," commented Joe Madden, Principal Analyst at Mobile Experts. "Just like Moore's Law, all good things come to an end. In this case, the end has come from a combination of technical factors, economic factors, and scarcity of a key resource that we call spectrum. We will see a shift in strategy by the mobile operators because they will see their margins squeezed in the future."

This new report provides clear insight about how this will change the thinking of the telecom industry in general. Available for a cost of $2,900, the report can be found on the Mobile Experts website.

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About Mobile Experts Inc.:

Mobile Experts techno-market analysis is used by more than 150 suppliers in the mobile/wireless industry, as well as multiple mobile operators, hyperscalers, and managed service providers. MEXP was the only analyst firm to correctly predict the failure of femtocells and the use of small cells for capacity in 2011, and was the only firm to predict the rise of 5G FWA as early as 2015.

Mobile Experts combines a deep-dive technical approach with hard-nosed economic analysis to predict the long-term future of the mobile industry. Recent publications focus on Macro and Massive MIMO Base Stations, Industrial Private Cellular, Virtual RAN, AI impact on RAN Capacity, Small Cells, Edge Computing, and more. 

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