Region in Focus: North America, Q1 2023
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Region in Focus: North America, Q1 2023
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The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition looks at the escalating monetisation imperative for operators as 5G adoption in North America passes 50% this year. It will be important to assess what makes the new wave of 5G consumers different to early adopters and to gauge the impact of increased 5G adoption on data traffic and ARPU levels. Key to growth will be meeting the requirements of consumer use cases and serving enterprise customers with new solutions enabled by technologies such as 5G standalone and edge computing.
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Region in Focus: North America, Q1 2023
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