rizwank

SA is showing some real latency improvements, but not down to single ms... I don't think yet...

What are the real usecases for 5G in your mind?

Every indication is that Dish will be at least as wholesale-friendly as was Sprint, maybe even more so.

Once they have their own network...

So even if there is a little bit of a nuclear winter for MVNOs for the next couple of years, I think it won't last forever. (And that was also true after each of the droughts post the big ESPN Mobile/Amp'd/Solavei failures.)

Not that anyone asked me, but I'd suggest that the aggregators (ahem, at least one of them) will be there with wide open arms to enable new usecases and businesses. I actually think a economic shift will help out prepaid; more bandwidth = more pricing flexibility = new usecases.

Still, roaming configuration and testing has proven to be more of a “try this,” “did that work?,” “no, then try this maybe” process than an exact science.

I've got a roaming probe vendor in my rolodex if you want a referral.

And yes, OMG roaming testing = the bane of my existence, until it became the bane of someone else's existence. =)

On the software side, we decided to go with an open source BSS/OSS platform a little while back to avoid getting stuck with a big monolithic provider that we couldn't escape. (It's one of the reasons wireless and telecom in general tends to struggle with billing, customer care, and the like in our opinion — pretty much everyone uses the same awful software.)

Which one did you end up with?