Tools and analysis
Free tools, templates and analysis
Everything here is free to download and share without a sign-up, and everything says what it will not do as well as what it will. The models and templates each come with a worked example, the ebooks carry a series entire, and every figure in an analysis shows the document it came from.
Everything, in one list
Filter by kind. Each row opens its own page.
What does spectrum cost?
Every US spectrum benchmark we can compute from public data, in one comparable unit, each with its source.
Framework library
132 business strategy and technology management frameworks, each with guidance on when to use it and a workbench that exports to PowerPoint, Word, Excel and PDF.
What spectrum is worth: a comparables model
The eight public benchmarks as a workbook you can drive: enter a band, a bandwidth and a population, and it returns the range the comparables support.
Spectrum position review checklist
The work that produces a number you can defend to a board, in five sections, with a worked example built from real auction data.
Partnership go / no-go decision record
Eight tests, a weighted score, and the part most decision records omit, which is what would have to change for the decision to be revisited.
Who can afford to build a second mobile network
Five incumbents modelled to the money left after capex and dividends, and four satellite operators as filed beside them.
Direct-to-device: a board briefing
The seven-part analysis distilled to sixteen slides a CTO can present, with every figure showing its source on the slide that carries it.
Direct-to-device: the seven-part analysis
All seven parts in one document, with the 42 exhibits numbered as they are on the site, every method note and every source intact.
Ranking an AI portfolio by what it costs to find out
A ranking model that puts a modest prize you can settle in six weeks above a large one that takes nine months and two million to test.
From diagnosis to first revenue
The three stages after the recommendation, where the difficulty lives, with the evidence each gate needs before the next stage starts.
Direct-to-device: the seven-part series as an ebook
The seven parts on satellite direct-to-device in one PDF: who holds the spectrum, who pays, how the radios work, what the rules allow and what happens next, with every exhibit and source.
The 6G Technology Series as an ebook
The eight parts on 6G in one PDF: the dates already fixed, where the spectrum comes from, what 6G adds, what a cycle costs, the vendors, what pays before the freeze, what would move the dates and what 6G will do.
Integrated Sensing and Communications as an ebook
The five parts on integrated sensing in one PDF: what a network can see, what the standard has agreed, what sensing costs, what survives the link budget and who pays.
AI in Telecom Operations as an ebook
The five parts on AI in telecom operations in one PDF: where the operating cost sits, what operators say AI saves, the ten candidates ranked, what the standards add and where the kill gate goes.
Non-Terrestrial Networks as an ebook
The five parts on non-terrestrial networks in one PDF: what each orbit is good for, backhaul and broadband from orbit, high-altitude platforms and how the rules treat them.
Private Networks & Neutral Host as an ebook
The five parts on private networks and neutral host in one PDF: how CBRS is shared, who builds, who pays for coverage, the rules for shared spectrum and what an enterprise should decide.
What is deployed today
Who holds which spectrum, and on what terms?
Why the operators are doing this
Why do it this way, and what does it cost?
How the radios work
What can the radios physically do?
What spectrum costs
What does it cost to stop being a tenant?
Where the rules get written
Who writes the rules, and what have they already decided?
Who can afford to play
Does anyone have the money?
What happens next
Carrier or supplement?
The dates that are already fixed
What has been committed to, by whom, and for when?
Where the spectrum comes from
Which bands can it run in, and when are they sold?
What 6G adds beyond 5G-Advanced
Which capabilities need the new standard, and which exist today?
What a cycle costs
What did 5G cost the carriers, and what is left for the next one?
The vendors and the architecture bets
What do AI-native and open mean as commitments rather than slogans?
What pays before the freeze
Which bets pay on today’s hardware and which need the standard?
What would move the dates
Which dated signals would move the timeline and in which direction?
What 6G will do
What does each capability do, what is decided, who wants it, and where is the value?
What a network can see
What can a cellular network resolve at each band, and what does the standard ask of it?
What the standard has agreed
What is normative, what is still study, and what is decided next?
What sensing costs
What does sensing take from the network, and what is that worth?
What survives the link budget
How far can a base station see a drone, a person or a car, and which uses survive?
Who pays for sensing
Who is paying for network sensing, and who is allowed to sell it?
The cost an AI saving is measured against
How large is the cost an AI saving is measured against, and where does it appear in the accounts?
What operators say AI saves
Which AI savings have operators put a number on, in which venue, and can the accounts show them?
Ten AI candidates ranked by the cost of finding out
Which AI candidates can produce a trustworthy number cheapest, and what has been published for each?
What the standards add
What do 3GPP, O-RAN and the autonomy levels give an operator to build an AI programme on?
Where the kill gate goes
Which rules and which failures decide where an AI pilot must stop, and what should it measure while it runs?
What each orbit is good for
What does each altitude buy and what does it cost?
Backhaul from orbit
Who puts cell sites on satellites and what should a carrier check first?
Broadband from orbit
Who buys broadband from orbit, at what price, and how much public money follows it?
High-altitude platforms
What can a stratospheric platform do that a tower or a satellite cannot, and has anyone made it pay?
How the rules treat non-terrestrial networks
What have the FCC, the ITU and 3GPP decided and what is still pending?
How CBRS is shared
Who holds the shared band, on what terms, and how much of it is used?
Who builds private networks
Who sells, runs and buys private cellular networks, and what do they run on?
Who pays for coverage nobody owns
What does coverage inside a building cost, who pays for it now, and who decides whether it carries the public?
The rules that decide the shared band
Which decisions about the shared band are open, who is asking for what, and what would change for its users?
What an enterprise should decide
Wi-Fi 7, private 5G, a neutral host or a carrier programme: which, for what, and on what evidence?
Start with a diagnosis
Tell us what you are trying to decide. We reply in writing within two working days, with how we would approach it, what it would take and what it would cost.