Fixed wireless using 4G and 5G will be important at the margin for connectivity service providers. More than 70 percent of all service providers are now offering fixed wireless, according to Ericsson.
Out of the 311 service providers Ericsson recently surveyed, 224 offered fixed wireless services. That said, fixed wireless will be important for most service providers only at the margin. At present there are perhaps 75 million active fixed wireless accounts in service globally.
There are about 1.12 billion fixed network broadband subscriptions globally, Ericsson and others estimate. So less than seven percent of active fixed network internet access lines are provisioned using fixed wireless.
Of course, fixed wireless matters quite a lot for some connectivity providers who can leverage fixed wireless to sustain broadband operations where fiber to the home is unaffordable or where some providers can take market share.
T-Mobile in the U.S. market, for example, has zero share of the home broadband business generating as much as $195 billion in annual revenues. If T-Mobile can use fixed wireless to take just one percent share, that is an incremental $2 billion in annual revenues.
source: Ericsson
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