Can the cellular industry actually make the leap from selling connectivity to selling intelligence, or will that value get captured by someone else? Listen to @raymond_dolan lay out the full case on The Week with Roger. 🎙️
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#Telecom #IndustryInsights #6G
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.@raymond_dolan made a prediction worth tracking: connectivity may eventually become free. Voice was mobilized, then given away. Mobile internet is following the same curve. If sensing turns the cellular network into a physical-world intelligence platform, the monetizable asset shifts from transport to spatial awareness. Carriers would transition from the communications business to the intelligence business.
#6G #Telecom
Counter-UAS is forcing the 6G architecture question right now, not in 2030. Every government @raymond_dolan has spoken with sees cellular towers at 100 to 150 feet as a ready-made sensing network. The multistatic architecture needed to triangulate drone tracks is the same coordinated multipoint design that solves cell-edge performance. Defense urgency is pulling 6G forward.
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What makes that architectural shift possible now: @Cohere_4G_5G's channel estimates hold for 50 to 100 milliseconds. Edge cloud round-trip latency is under 10 milliseconds. That gap gives AI enough time to optimize scheduling across multiple cells before the channel picture goes stale. The compute budget finally matches the architecture.
#6G #Wireless
The cell-edge problem is half the story nobody tells. Half of cellular performance limits come from interference between users inside the cell. The other half comes from inter-cell interference. Today's schedulers only handle the first half. You can't fix the second half until you move the scheduler off the base station and into the cloud.
#Telecom #5G
Replying to @RogerEntner @raymond_dolan
Here's the pattern that keeps repeating: outsiders who correctly diagnose the core constraint beat incumbents who iterate on the old one. @Qualcomm did it with spread spectrum. Flarion did it with OFDM. Now @Cohere_4G_5G is doing it with a radar-native waveform called OTFS that treats reflections as signal, not interference.
#Wireless #5G
Every wireless generation wins by solving one specific physical-layer problem. CDMA solved noise. OFDM solved TCP/IP compatibility. The delay-Doppler domain solves reflectivity. @raymond_dolan, who helped bring OFDM to market with Flarion, is now building that third answer at @Cohere_4G_5G Technologies. 🧵
#Telecom #6G
Replying to @RogerEntner @Cohere_4G_5G
The pattern is clear. Voice became free once it enabled mobile internet. Mobile internet may become free once it enables ubiquitous physical intelligence at scale. Carriers will then have to decide whether they stay in the connectivity business or move up the stack to monetize intelligence.
Which path do you think wins? Listen to this week’s “The Week with Roger” for the full conversation with @raymond_dolan. 🎙️bit.ly/4dJOnch
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Replying to @RogerEntner @Cohere_4G_5G
.@Cohere_4G_5G just won a $30M award to build the first true multi-waveform base station that runs both 5G NR and OTFS in the same box without the DSS-style interference problems we saw before. The same platform that solves counter-UAS today becomes the foundation for physical AI tomorrow.
Replying to @RogerEntner @Cohere_4G_5G
The cell edge has always been the industry’s weakest link. By revealing the reflective environment before transmission and coordinating across towers, this architecture finally delivers a consistent experience from near the tower to the far edge. That gap has persisted for 30 years. It does not have to anymore.
Replying to @RogerEntner @Cohere_4G_5G
Channel estimates that last tens of milliseconds buy two things the industry has needed for a decade: time to run real AI in the scheduler and time to shift decision-making from the base station into a coordinated multipoint architecture. That is exactly the multistatic architecture everyone is now pursuing for ISAC.
Replying to @RogerEntner @Cohere_4G_5G
Half the performance loss in cellular networks comes from interference between users in the same cell. The other half comes from users in neighboring cells. Current schedulers can only manage the first half. Moving the scheduler to the edge cloud, where @Cohere_4G_5G’s channel estimates remain valid for 50–100 ms, lets operators finally address both.
The wireless industry has solved noise and made IP work. The next problem is reflectivity. @Cohere_4G_5G’s OTFS approach turns multipath from enemy into a precise radar map of the physical world. That changes everything about what cellular networks can actually do. 🧵
Will standard 3GPP protocols accommodate this architectural shift, or will defense use cases force the market to adapt? Listen to "The Week with Roger" for the full breakdown on the future of cellular architecture. 🎙️
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Voice was mobilized and became essentially free. Data gets cheaper by the gigabyte. The next monetizable asset is physical AI. When the network maps the physical world in real time, carriers will eventually pivot from selling raw connectivity to selling spatial intelligence.
#5G #IndustryInsights
Drone incursions are forcing the rapid development of Integrated Sensing and Communication. Cell towers sitting at 100 to 150 feet provide the necessary terrestrial vantage point. A cellular network mapped with radar tracks objects seamlessly as they cross from one sector to the next.
#Broadband #Telecom
Replying to @RogerEntner @raymond_dolan
Dynamic Spectrum Sharing struggled because 4G and 5G competed within the stack. @Cohere_4G_5G Technologies is building a multi-waveform base station that isolates the logical layers. This allows a standard 5G platform and proprietary defense waveforms to operate cleanly in the same box.
#DataAnalytics #Wireless
Replying to @RogerEntner @raymond_dolan
CDMA made noise a degree of freedom. OFDM made IP packets survive wireless transmission. The next architectural leap solves reflectivity. Delay-Doppler technology uses a radar approach to map the reflective environment before a transmission even begins.
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Replying to @RogerEntner @raymond_dolan
The 6G definition phase is solidifying, and the focus is shifting from speed to spatial intelligence. @raymond_dolan joined "The Week with Roger" to explain Integrated Sensing and Communication. Cellular networks are transitioning from pure data pipes into physical radar grids. 🧵
