5. TBI’s Justin Foxwood
Telco and cable company earnings continue to present a mixed bag of wireless growth and wireline decline, according to first quarter earnings for AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile and Verizon. All four companies reported gains in wireless that in most cases helped them prevail over slumping wireline numbers.
TBI solution engineer Justin Foxwood made waves for his insight about why fixed wireless is growing. Foxwood said fixed wireless has re-emerged in the channel after channel partners commonly sold it more than a decade ago. Foxwood said 5G helped fill in line-of-sight problems that fixed wireless connections previously faced.
“You now have multiple avenues to pull and send data to,” Foxwood told Channel Futures. “It just so happened that 5G has come along and [boosted] this hipster technology.”
Read more from James Anderson’s reporting here.
