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Verizon Business recently announced that its 5G Business fixed-wireless internet offering is now available in parts of 42 U.S. cities, an expansion from the previous total of 24 cities announced in April. Verizon Business is also offering a credit of up to $1,500 to offset early-termination fees for eligible customers switch- ing to Verizon from another Internet provider, and the previ- ously announced 10-year price lock guarantee for eligible new customers is still in effect. Marketed as “an alternative to cable Internet,” the offering is powered by 5G Ultra-Wideband and includes professional installation with no digging and a fast timeline to deployment, said the company. Also notable, several of the newly announced markets are outside Verizon’s traditional local service footprint in the northeastern U.S. Instead, the markets are in the Midwest, as well as in the southeastern and western U.S. “Professional installation from Verizon means easy setup and quick application deployments from the start,” said Sampath Sowmyanarayan, chief revenue officer of Verizon Business. Private 5G Network Growth to Outpace Public Private 5G network deployments are expected to surge during the next few years faster even than public 5G networks, according to analysts at RAN research. Private 5G network revenue will reach a peak in 2027 of $19.3 billion in equipment sales, before subsiding as saturation approaches. RAN Research expects a similar boom in deployment of enterprise Wi-Fi networks around the latest 6E standard. However, that Wi-Fi growth will be confined largely to North America and Europe, and will peak earlier in 2024, after which an increasing number of sites will swing to 5G for more demanding use cases. Healthcare, transportation, energy and government stand out as sectors where deployments of private 5G and Wi-Fi 6E will take off faster than the average. “Cumulative growth in private 5G will be spectacular,” said the research firm, “with 26.6 million networks deployed around the world by 2028, up from 1.1 million in 2021.” This growth will occur in all regions but will be especially striking in four countries leading the private 5G field now: the U.S., Germany, China and Japan. While 5G will account for the lion’s share of the growth over the whole forecast period, there will still be a significant number of 4G private networks being deployed during the next few years. Similarly, on the Wi-Fi front, the last genera- tion 5 is dominant at present, but it will be the latest 6E that takes over during the forecast period and offers an alternative to 5G for some of the emerging cases. There will also be a revival of heterogenous networks combining Wi-Fi and cellular under these two latest genera- tions, as new AI based techniques finally deliver the smooth handover that has proved elusive for so long, said RAN analysts. Verizon Business FWA Adds 18 Markets MOBILE & WIRELESS $11.1 Billion Projected size of the global Wi-Fi hotspot market by 2027, up from $3.8 billion in 2020, according to Global Industry Analysts Inc. Hardware is projected to grow at a 14.9 percent CAGR to reach $5.6 billion by the end of 2027, while the software segment is pegged for 16.9 percent CAGR through the period. The United States accounted for more than 29.6 percent of global market size in 2020, while China is forecast to grow at a 15.9 percent during the period. Verizon 5G Business Internet Availability (Parts of …) Added Business FWA Markets Existing Business FWA Markets Ann Arbor, Mich. Anaheim, Calif. Akron, Ohio Atlanta, Ga. Fresno, Calif. Chicago, Ill. Spokane, Wash. Cincinnati, Ohio Columbia, S.C. Cleveland, Ohio Milwaukee, Wisc. Dallas, Texas Tampa, Fla. Denver, Colo. St. Petersburg, Fla. Detroit, Mich. Memphis, Tenn. Houston, Texas San Antonio, Texas Indianapolis, Ind. Columbus, Ohio Kansas City, Mo. Raleigh, N.C. Los Angeles, Calif. Durham, N.C. Las Vegas, Nev. Greensboro, N.C. Miami, Fla. Seattle, Wash. Minneapolis, Minn. Tucson, Ariz. Phoenix, Ariz. Des Moines, Ia. Sacramento, Calif. New Orleans, La. Salt Lake City, Utah San Diego, Calif. San Francisco, Calif. San Jose, Calif. St. Louis, Mo. St. Paul, Minn. Riverside-Corona, Calif nity Mobile Subscribers: rior Forecast eless Subscribers: Prior Forecast reports; MoffettNathanson estimates Which of the following best describes your company’s plan when it comes to the following? Source: Morning Consult; Verizon, 1/21 eports; MoffettNathanson estimates G+Edge ecosystem across just five industries For disaster recovery To improve reliability To interconnect with public cloud providers, telcos, services providers or customers Why does your organization rent space at a colocation provider? (Please select all that apply.) For private cloud To improve latency To move from capex to opex Regulatory/compliance requirements To access renewable energy and/or improve effici ncy As ‘edge’ space (e.g. for loT data, or keep content closer to end users) Lack skills to manage/operate datacenter Ran out of enterprise datacenter space/power Colocation Motivators Source: 451 Research; 9/20 4,983 4,775 5,873 5,449 6,843 6,054 7,893 7,044 2022E 2023E 2024E 2025E 2022E 2023E 2024E 2025E 4,594 4,424 5,566 5,238 6,444 5,939 7,244 6,545 Subscribing to a 5G-enabled fixed-line business internet service Deploying Pivate 5G networks for our enterprise and other company locations Already done/currently doing this Planning to do in the next 6 months Planning to do in the next 7-12 months Planning to do in the next 13-24 months No current plans to do this Don’t know/no opinion 47 47 32% 30% 30% 25% 21% 21% 20% 17% 16% ised Prior ised or 18% 15% 28% 19% 12% 18% 8% 34% 18% 10% 14% 6% 16 CHANNEL V ISION | July - August 2021