Wireless Infrastructure

Overview

This programme analyses the techno-economics and trade-offs of mobile network investment. It delivers data on the fundamental building blocks of mobile networks: spectrum, technologies and sites. It delivers comprehensive actual and forecast data on mobile and other wireless traffic. It explores the relationships between investment in the building blocks and demand, both for vertically integrated mobile operators and for structurally delayered entities in the mobile value chain.

Topics for 2026

• What will happen to towercos? 
• Spectrum: from famine to feast
• Investing for fixed-wireless access (FWA)

Typical client enquiries

• Why is cellular traffic actually declining in some countries?
• What is the delta between 5G device traffic and 5G network traffic?
• Can we have a discussion, with slides, focusing on mobile and fixed/Wi-Fi share of data traffic in [client’s] home market?
• Can you provide insights into the arguments for the licensed and unlicensed assignment of the upper-6GHz band focusing on [client’s] home market?
• What are the implications of declining growth in mobile traffic for towerco businesses?