Market insights
MTN Consulting’s published research covers a wide range of market issues. Each quarter, our three market segment trackers assess the growth and development of telco, webscale, and carrier-neutral network operators. Other market insight reports focus on telco labor costs and layoffs; investment bubble risk in webscale/data center; connected car ecosystems; smart cities (aka surveillance cities); and, policy & regulatory issues (with a focus on US-China relations).
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By Matt Walker published on August 13, 2020
Automation is the key to telcos controlling their network engineering costs
The telecommunications industry... read more
By Matt Walker published on July 11, 2020
Summary
Huawei held its global industry analyst summit (GAS 2020) in late May, just days after the U.S. Comme... read more
By Subramanian Venkatraman and Matt Walker published on July 1, 2020
This market review provides a comprehensive assessment of the global telecommunications industry based on financial results through January 2020 (1Q20). The report tracks reven... read more
By Arun Menon and Matt Walker published on June 30, 2020
Webscale networks are centered around immense, “hyperscale” data centers and undersea cable systems that support network traffic from the tech companies' online retail, video, and social media platforms, along with cloud services. Webscale networ... read more
By Matt Walker published on June 25, 2020
Summary
While the telco sector struggled to achieve any growth at all in the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20), th... read more
By Matt Walker published on June 20, 2020
Summary
Telecom network operator (telco) capital expenditures (capex) declined by approximately 1.3% year-ove... read more
By Matt Walker published on June 10, 2020
Telco NI market undergoing disruption in 2020, from COVID-19, Huawei, and the webscale sector
MTN Consulting has now finalized its analysis of vendor sales of network infrastructure (NI) products and services to the telco sector for the qua... read more
By Arun Menon and Matt Walker published on June 2, 2020
This is MTN Consulting’s comprehensive, Excel-based assessment of the Carrier-Neutral Network Operator (CNNO) market sector, including detailed financial & operational results from 2011 through December, 2019 (4Q19).
Tower CNNOs covered incl... read more
By Matt Walker published on May 4, 2020
Software is central to telco efforts to compete
Over the last two decades, ... read more
By Matt Walker published on April 27, 2020
Success of 5G relies heavily on affordable spectrum
Telecom operators are in the midst of an expensive networ... read more
