Author Archives: Jens Zander

About Jens Zander

Professor Jens Zander is professor in Radio Communication Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He has been among the few in Swedens Ny Teknik magazine's annual list of influential people in ICT that have been given the epithet “Mobile Guru”. He is one of the leading researchers in mobile communication and is the Scientific director of the industry/academia collaboration center Wireless@KTH. His research group focuses on three main areas – the efficient and scalable use of the radio frequency spectrum, economic aspects of mobile systems and application and energy efficiency in future wireless infrastructures.

The price of freedom – is unlicensed spectrum a waste of resources ?

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Jens Zander

In a recent COMSOC Technology News article, Thomas Hazlett and Michael Honig discuss how deal with spectrum in those frequency ranges where WiFi and cellular collide. They argue that when spectrum is scarce, unlicensed, “free”, spectrum is economically inefficient. The argument is … Continue reading →

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The 5G Myth – the emperor’s clothes revisited

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Jens Zander

The 5G myth is the title of book recently published by William Webb.  A short summary of the book can also be found in the summary William published on LinkedIn.  The authors dissects and debunks some of the hype – in … Continue reading →

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Revenue sharing – the beginning of the end of the neutral internet ?

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Jens Zander

Amsterdam based russian mobile operator Vimpelcom announced recently that the are embarking on a new path where instead of charging their subscribers for data plans, the content providers would foot the bill. This comes at a time when a debate … Continue reading →

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“The Emperors New Clothes”

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Jens Zander

I was recently interviewed by the Swedish Tech journal “Ny Teknik”  about my thoughts on that several operators are claiming that they will be launching commercial “5G” services in 2017 and 2018. Behind the tabloids “War has begun”-style headlines, my answer … Continue reading →

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Now we know the cost of 5G – and how much spectrum is needed!

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Jens Zander

In a recent report published by the European Commission the cost and societal benefits of a future deployment are estimated.  The report comes to the conclusion that 56B€ is the cost of deploying a 5G infrastructure and that this will create … Continue reading →

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Johannesberg Summit 2016

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Jens Zander

As usual, you can follow all talks live in May 10 -11  here!  

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Is the “Sharing Economy” already dead?

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Jens Zander

It seems that the idea of sharing a household item that you do not need that often, say a power drill, a power washer or a ladder with your neighbor is something that everyone intuitively understands and want’s, but unlike … Continue reading →

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Virgin Media – Chesham pilots UK’s first Smart WiFi Pavement with Virgin Media

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Jens Zander

It only is this the first time we’ve built metropolitan WiFi directly from our street cabinets, it is also the UK’s first deployment of a WiFi connected pavement. It is literally public WiFi under your feet. We want to build … Continue reading →

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How much spectrum data is needed for efficient spectrum sharing ?

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Jens Zander

IEEE DySPAN 2015 is under way in Stockholm and I attended (actually co-organized) an NSF sponsored workshop on “Future Directions in Spectrum Management Research“. The actual organization of the workshop became, admittedly, somewhat “ad hoc”, but thanks to the strong and … Continue reading →

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The “Tactile Internet” – a contradiction in terms ?

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Jens Zander

I was visiting our “sister center”  5G-Lab Germany  at their Academic Interaction Day yesterday. An interesting crowd of distinguished researchers was discussing the key design challenges and architectural concepts for 5G. There was a wide consensus about the three design dimensions … Continue reading →

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