Ericsson conducts ongoing research and monitoring of major developments impacting the global ICT industry, its customers, and itself. With regard to fixed wireless access (FWA), the network infrastructure vendor wrote in a 2023 handbook it published that more than 75% of all operators offer some kind of FWA services. 5G accounts for around 33% of those FWA services, a 50% increase compared to a year earlier.
The handbook identifies two variants: “best-effort” service and a service with a speed-based quality of service, which guarantees specific performance metrics, and comes with higher ARPU compared to a “best-effort.” Some 25% of current offerings are sold against specific QoS metrics.
