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Upper 6 GHz: Hearing the Mobile Side ...
Europe is funding fiber to every building, but the last 10 meters are still wireless. After years of hearing the Wi-Fi side of the upper 6 GHz debate, I sat...
Upper 6 GHz: Hearing the Mobile Side of the Story
Europe is funding fiber to every building, but the last 10 meters are still wireless. After years of hearing the Wi-Fi side of the upper 6 GHz debate, I sat...
Managed Wi-Fi in Student Housing, Par...
Student housing compresses every multifamily connectivity challenge into a denser, faster, and less forgiving setting. Part 2 of this series examines what makes a student community so hard to serve,...
Managed Wi-Fi in Student Housing, Part 2: The Challenges of Serving...
Student housing compresses every multifamily connectivity challenge into a denser, faster, and less forgiving setting. Part 2 of this series examines what makes a student community so hard to serve,...
Boldyn's Bet: Own the Pipes, Stay Neu...
Boldyn Networks is betting that whoever owns the fiber, power, and sites in hard-to-cover places will outlast every radio generation. After an hour with US CTO Marc Rohleder, Maravedis tests...
Boldyn's Bet: Own the Pipes, Stay Neutral on the Radios
Boldyn Networks is betting that whoever owns the fiber, power, and sites in hard-to-cover places will outlast every radio generation. After an hour with US CTO Marc Rohleder, Maravedis tests...
Managed Wi-Fi in Student Housing, Par...
Off-campus student housing now counts more than 1 million beds at the Yardi 200 schools, and with rent growth near 1% and new supply concentrated in key markets, operators are...
Managed Wi-Fi in Student Housing, Part 1: Who Lives There and How T...
Off-campus student housing now counts more than 1 million beds at the Yardi 200 schools, and with rent growth near 1% and new supply concentrated in key markets, operators are...
Europe's Fixed Broadband Technologies...
Fibre now reaches 74% of EU households, but in apartment buildings the real contest happens in the last 10 to 50 metres. We compare FTTH, FTTB, cable DOCSIS 3.1 and...
Europe's Fixed Broadband Technologies Compared: What Works in Apart...
Fibre now reaches 74% of EU households, but in apartment buildings the real contest happens in the last 10 to 50 metres. We compare FTTH, FTTB, cable DOCSIS 3.1 and...
Who Manages Europe's Apartment Connec...
Europe has more apartments than North America, but no single managed connectivity model. We map the six kinds of provider serving European MDUs, from ASK4, Glide and Wifirst to Hyperoptic...
Who Manages Europe's Apartment Connectivity? A Field Guide to the MSPs
Europe has more apartments than North America, but no single managed connectivity model. We map the six kinds of provider serving European MDUs, from ASK4, Glide and Wifirst to Hyperoptic...
Plume 2.0: From Wi-Fi Optimizer to Ag...
In under two years, Plume has replaced its leadership, rebuilt its architecture around industry standards, and redefined what it sells. Based on interviews with Plume’s CPO and CTO and the...
Plume 2.0: From Wi-Fi Optimizer to Agentic Operating Layer for ISPs
In under two years, Plume has replaced its leadership, rebuilt its architecture around industry standards, and redefined what it sells. Based on interviews with Plume’s CPO and CTO and the...
TP-Link Is Being Sued. What Does It M...
Four states sued TP-Link Systems on October 6 over its retail routers. Omada isn’t named, but it shares the company, supply chain, and brand, so its risk isn’t zero. Coming...
TP-Link Is Being Sued. What Does It Mean for Omada in MDU?
Four states sued TP-Link Systems on October 6 over its retail routers. Omada isn’t named, but it shares the company, supply chain, and brand, so its risk isn’t zero. Coming...
Passed, Not Connected: Europe's Fiber...
Europe has built fiber to 295 million homes, yet 86 million passed homes in the EU27 and UK still don’t subscribe. Using new IDATE and Fibre Council Europe data, we...
Passed, Not Connected: Europe's Fiber Take-Up Problem
Europe has built fiber to 295 million homes, yet 86 million passed homes in the EU27 and UK still don’t subscribe. Using new IDATE and Fibre Council Europe data, we...
Gigabit to the Building, Not to the D...
Europe's Gigabit Infrastructure Act wires fiber into every new apartment building, but Wi-Fi, which carries the signal the last ten meters to the devices, is never mentioned. With the upper...
Gigabit to the Building, Not to the Device: Europe's GIA and the Wi...
Europe's Gigabit Infrastructure Act wires fiber into every new apartment building, but Wi-Fi, which carries the signal the last ten meters to the devices, is never mentioned. With the upper...
What the Evidence Says About Connecti...
Residents expect connectivity that just works, whether they live in a 30-year-old garden community or a new high-rise. Operators such as MAA and AvalonBay now tie managed Wi-Fi to NOI,...
What the Evidence Says About Connectivity and NOI
Residents expect connectivity that just works, whether they live in a 30-year-old garden community or a new high-rise. Operators such as MAA and AvalonBay now tie managed Wi-Fi to NOI,...
Stuck in the Basement: Where European...
Europe's fibre now passes 191 million homes, yet only 55% subscribe. Our analysis of ten markets shows MDU density barely predicts take-up. Spain and France convert nine in ten homes...
Stuck in the Basement: Where European Fibre Goes to Stall
Europe's fibre now passes 191 million homes, yet only 55% subscribe. Our analysis of ten markets shows MDU density barely predicts take-up. Spain and France convert nine in ten homes...
Airspan Bought Part of Cambium. WISPs...
Cambium's collapse left thousands of WISPs exposed, and Airspan's purchase of PMP 450, the PTP lines, and cnMaestro is only a partial answer. ePMP, the line many smaller operators depend...
Airspan Bought Part of Cambium. WISPs Are Left With the Rest.
Cambium's collapse left thousands of WISPs exposed, and Airspan's purchase of PMP 450, the PTP lines, and cnMaestro is only a partial answer. ePMP, the line many smaller operators depend...
When the Vendor Disappears: What the ...
Cambium Networks collapsed over a weekend, leaving roughly 2,000 managed properties and several U.S. multifamily MSPs on a platform with nobody behind it. Maravedis had rated the company Rising Challenger,...
When the Vendor Disappears: What the Cambium Networks Collapse Mean...
Cambium Networks collapsed over a weekend, leaving roughly 2,000 managed properties and several U.S. multifamily MSPs on a platform with nobody behind it. Maravedis had rated the company Rising Challenger,...
MDU Connectivity Awards 2026 Finalist...
Maravedis Research has announced 25 finalists for the inaugural MDU Connectivity Awards 2026, presented by Calix. Across nine categories, from managed Wi-Fi to PropTech, an independent judging panel selected the...
MDU Connectivity Awards 2026 Finalists Revealed
Maravedis Research has announced 25 finalists for the inaugural MDU Connectivity Awards 2026, presented by Calix. Across nine categories, from managed Wi-Fi to PropTech, an independent judging panel selected the...
Broadband Forum's Matter Service API ...
The Broadband Forum's TR-517 gives the operator gateway a standard way to see and manage every Matter device behind it, whatever the vendor or ecosystem. For consumer ISPs, that is...
Broadband Forum's Matter Service API Puts the Operator Gateway Back...
The Broadband Forum's TR-517 gives the operator gateway a standard way to see and manage every Matter device behind it, whatever the vendor or ecosystem. For consumer ISPs, that is...
The Smart Apartment Era Is Ending. Th...
Vendor revenue for PropTech and IoT systems in U.S. multifamily housing is projected to approach $4 billion by 2031, up from $1.5 billion in 2026. But the ceiling barely moves...
The Smart Apartment Era Is Ending. The Smart Building Contract Is N...
Vendor revenue for PropTech and IoT systems in U.S. multifamily housing is projected to approach $4 billion by 2031, up from $1.5 billion in 2026. But the ceiling barely moves...
The Case for the Independent Director...
Private equity did not just finance the consolidation of multifamily connectivity. It rewrote the segment's governance model. Sponsor-controlled boards now oversee these platforms, and in an industry where the controlling...
The Case for the Independent Director in Multifamily Tech
Private equity did not just finance the consolidation of multifamily connectivity. It rewrote the segment's governance model. Sponsor-controlled boards now oversee these platforms, and in an industry where the controlling...
The Private Equity Decade in Multifam...
Financial sponsors now own most of the meaningful independent operators in U.S. multifamily connectivity. That capital funded a technology roadmap founders could not have financed, and it also imported clocks,...
The Private Equity Decade in Multifamily Tech
Financial sponsors now own most of the meaningful independent operators in U.S. multifamily connectivity. That capital funded a technology roadmap founders could not have financed, and it also imported clocks,...
The PropTech Stack Independent Senior...
Independent living operators do not buy PropTech categories. They buy relief from specific problems: a door system, a notification app, leak sensors. This piece works through the stack the segment...
The PropTech Stack Independent Senior Living Actually Buy
Independent living operators do not buy PropTech categories. They buy relief from specific problems: a door system, a notification app, leak sensors. This piece works through the stack the segment...
Multifamily's Tech Stack Reckoning
Everybody's second priority, nobody's first. What the 2026 RETTC benchmarking survey reveals about multifamily's tech stack problem, and why layering AI on 70 applications makes rationalization urgent rather than optional.
Multifamily's Tech Stack Reckoning
Everybody's second priority, nobody's first. What the 2026 RETTC benchmarking survey reveals about multifamily's tech stack problem, and why layering AI on 70 applications makes rationalization urgent rather than optional.
The Bulk Managed WiFi Threat didn't d...
Nine jurisdictions now regulate bulk managed WiFi, and none of them have banned it. They capped the margin instead. A state-by-state map of opt-out rights, forced access, markup caps, and...
The Bulk Managed WiFi Threat didn't die. It fragmented.
Nine jurisdictions now regulate bulk managed WiFi, and none of them have banned it. They capped the margin instead. A state-by-state map of opt-out rights, forced access, markup caps, and...
Managed Connectivity for Seniors: The...
Senior housing occupancy has climbed for twenty straight quarters while new construction sits at decade lows, which makes independent living a brownfield market. Operators cannot build their way to a...
Managed Connectivity for Seniors: The Next Wave of Growth
Senior housing occupancy has climbed for twenty straight quarters while new construction sits at decade lows, which makes independent living a brownfield market. Operators cannot build their way to a...
Exclusive Interview with WISPA CEO Da...
Four years into his tenure at WISPA, President and CEO David Zumwalt sits down with Maravedis to discuss the transformation of the WISP industry: why he now calls his 600...
Exclusive Interview with WISPA CEO David Zumwalt on transformation,...
Four years into his tenure at WISPA, President and CEO David Zumwalt sits down with Maravedis to discuss the transformation of the WISP industry: why he now calls his 600...
Wi-Fi Carries Over 80% of Traffic. Mo...
Wi-Fi carries over 80 percent of traffic but captures a fraction of the value. Our read of the WBA's new monetization paper: why revenue lives above the connectivity layer, how...
Wi-Fi Carries Over 80% of Traffic. Monetizing It Is Still an Unfini...
Wi-Fi carries over 80 percent of traffic but captures a fraction of the value. Our read of the WBA's new monetization paper: why revenue lives above the connectivity layer, how...
Netgear's Quiet Reinvention as a B2B ...
NETGEAR is no longer primarily a consumer router company: its Enterprise division now generates 55 percent of revenue and is growing double digits, anchored by the Insight cloud platform built...
Netgear's Quiet Reinvention as a B2B and SaaS Company
NETGEAR is no longer primarily a consumer router company: its Enterprise division now generates 55 percent of revenue and is growing double digits, anchored by the Insight cloud platform built...
The End of the Smart Apartment Era
The smart apartment gadget era is over. Maravedis's upcoming report, PropTech Evolution in U.S. Multifamily 2026-2031, examines the shift to integrated building intelligence, drawing on months of executive briefings. Key...
The End of the Smart Apartment Era
The smart apartment gadget era is over. Maravedis's upcoming report, PropTech Evolution in U.S. Multifamily 2026-2031, examines the shift to integrated building intelligence, drawing on months of executive briefings. Key...
MDU Consolidation Has a Plumbing Problem
WiBUZ CEO Magnus Johansson responds to the Maravedis series on MDU consolidation with the operator's answer: the winners won't be decided by door count, but by who can run what...
MDU Consolidation Has a Plumbing Problem
WiBUZ CEO Magnus Johansson responds to the Maravedis series on MDU consolidation with the operator's answer: the winners won't be decided by door count, but by who can run what...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Co...
Part 3 argues that buying doors is the easy part of consolidation, and stitching the acquired networks into one operator is the hard part. The real difficulty is not the...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Connectivity (Part 3/3)
Part 3 argues that buying doors is the easy part of consolidation, and stitching the acquired networks into one operator is the hard part. The real difficulty is not the...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Co...
Part 1 argued that demand from the largest operators, the per-door economies of scale, and the direction of institutional capital are all pushing multifamily connectivity toward a smaller number of...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Connectivity (Part 2/3)
Part 1 argued that demand from the largest operators, the per-door economies of scale, and the direction of institutional capital are all pushing multifamily connectivity toward a smaller number of...
What Was Announced at HPE Discover 2026
At HPE Discover 2026, HPE laid out a three-layer "AI that acts" blueprint under GreenLake, with self-driving networks, agentic infrastructure, and intelligent hybrid operations threaded together by one Marvis AI...
What Was Announced at HPE Discover 2026
At HPE Discover 2026, HPE laid out a three-layer "AI that acts" blueprint under GreenLake, with self-driving networks, agentic infrastructure, and intelligent hybrid operations threaded together by one Marvis AI...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Co...
The independent MDU connectivity segment grew up fragmented. Now, the economies of scale, the direction of capital, and a strategic shift among the largest broadband operators are all pointing in...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Connectivity (Part 1/3)
The independent MDU connectivity segment grew up fragmented. Now, the economies of scale, the direction of capital, and a strategic shift among the largest broadband operators are all pointing in...
Five Takeaways from Our Webinar on Bo...
With 82% of U.S. apartment inventory in buildings over 10 years old, brownfield is not a niche: it is the multifamily market. Our latest webinar brought together Calix, Positron, and...
Five Takeaways from Our Webinar on Boosting Connectivity in Older MDUs
With 82% of U.S. apartment inventory in buildings over 10 years old, brownfield is not a niche: it is the multifamily market. Our latest webinar brought together Calix, Positron, and...
Bleeding Subscribers, Flat ARPU: The ...
A Maravedis analyst's view on the Q1 2026 reckoning for fixed broadband, and why the economics of multifamily are quietly becoming the most interesting line in the deck. Q1 2026...
Bleeding Subscribers, Flat ARPU: The MDU Answer US Broadband Keeps ...
A Maravedis analyst's view on the Q1 2026 reckoning for fixed broadband, and why the economics of multifamily are quietly becoming the most interesting line in the deck. Q1 2026...
What to Expect at Cisco Live US 2026
At Cisco Live US 2026, Cisco is betting big on the agentic network, unifying networking, security, and observability under Cisco Cloud Control, with AI agents, Live Protect security, a converged...
What to Expect at Cisco Live US 2026
At Cisco Live US 2026, Cisco is betting big on the agentic network, unifying networking, security, and observability under Cisco Cloud Control, with AI agents, Live Protect security, a converged...
Wi-Fi 7 in Multifamily: What the Tech...
Wi-Fi 7 delivers three outcomes multifamily residents actually care about: consistent connections in dense buildings, responsive low-latency performance for cloud gaming and video calls, and invisible capacity for households running...
Wi-Fi 7 in Multifamily: What the Technology Actually Delivers
Wi-Fi 7 delivers three outcomes multifamily residents actually care about: consistent connections in dense buildings, responsive low-latency performance for cloud gaming and video calls, and invisible capacity for households running...
Brownfield Reality: Why Resident Expe...
82% of U.S. rental apartments are in buildings more than 10 years old, legacy stock that predates modern managed Wi-Fi design. Delivering a great resident experience in these buildings is...
Brownfield Reality: Why Resident Experience Begins Inside the Walls
82% of U.S. rental apartments are in buildings more than 10 years old, legacy stock that predates modern managed Wi-Fi design. Delivering a great resident experience in these buildings is...
Extreme Connect: 30 Years in the Maki...
This blog shares my key takeaways from Extreme Connect 2026, Extreme Networks' annual customer and partner event held in Orlando. It is all about AI these days, and networking events...
Extreme Connect: 30 Years in the Making, One Platform to Run It All
This blog shares my key takeaways from Extreme Connect 2026, Extreme Networks' annual customer and partner event held in Orlando. It is all about AI these days, and networking events...
SMB Wi-Fi in 2026: A Dominant Vendor,...
Initial findings from the upcoming report Small Business Wi-Fi: The MSP Networking & Security Requirements Wi-Fi has become the most consequential piece of small-business technology infrastructure. Point-of-sale, voice, security cameras,...
SMB Wi-Fi in 2026: A Dominant Vendor, a Frustrated Channel
Initial findings from the upcoming report Small Business Wi-Fi: The MSP Networking & Security Requirements Wi-Fi has become the most consequential piece of small-business technology infrastructure. Point-of-sale, voice, security cameras,...
Scale Versus Service: Why the Top 10 ...
The Q4 2025 broadband leaderboard makes clear who owns the pipes to America's apartment buildings but not who controls connectivity inside them. The top national operators lead on subscriber count,...
Scale Versus Service: Why the Top 10 US Broadband Operators Don't O...
The Q4 2025 broadband leaderboard makes clear who owns the pipes to America's apartment buildings but not who controls connectivity inside them. The top national operators lead on subscriber count,...
How Managed Wi-Fi Is Reshaping BTR an...
Build-to-rent and master-planned communities are emerging as the next frontier for managed Wi-Fi, and they operate by rules that apartment-centric playbooks don't cover. BTR runs like a horizontal apartment building...
How Managed Wi-Fi Is Reshaping BTR and Master-Planned Communities
Build-to-rent and master-planned communities are emerging as the next frontier for managed Wi-Fi, and they operate by rules that apartment-centric playbooks don't cover. BTR runs like a horizontal apartment building...
Inside the NMHC Top 50's Outsized Tec...
The 50 largest U.S. multifamily property owners control only 11 percent of apartment stock but set the technology standard the rest of the market follows. Bulk managed Wi-Fi, PropTech integration,...
Inside the NMHC Top 50's Outsized Tech Influence
The 50 largest U.S. multifamily property owners control only 11 percent of apartment stock but set the technology standard the rest of the market follows. Bulk managed Wi-Fi, PropTech integration,...
Stop Guessing About OpenRoaming. Star...
The April 16, 2026 Enterprise Connectivity Forum, hosted by the Wireless Broadband Alliance,provided a useful update on the federation progress and some interesting case studies. The Numbers That Reframe the...
Stop Guessing About OpenRoaming. Start Tracking It.
The April 16, 2026 Enterprise Connectivity Forum, hosted by the Wireless Broadband Alliance,provided a useful update on the federation progress and some interesting case studies. The Numbers That Reframe the...
America's Router Market Faces a Recko...
America's Router Market Faces a Reckoning Washington's long-running effort to reshape the US consumer router market took a significant step forward this week, as the FCC confirmed that two American...
America's Router Market Faces a Reckoning
America's Router Market Faces a Reckoning Washington's long-running effort to reshape the US consumer router market took a significant step forward this week, as the FCC confirmed that two American...
5 Reasons to Become a Sponsor of the ...
The multifamily connectivity industry has never moved faster - and the companies shaping it deserve to be recognized. That's exactly why Maravedis Research launched the inaugural MDU Connectivity Awards 2026:...
5 Reasons to Become a Sponsor of the Maravedis MDU Connectivity Awa...
The multifamily connectivity industry has never moved faster - and the companies shaping it deserve to be recognized. That's exactly why Maravedis Research launched the inaugural MDU Connectivity Awards 2026:...
Broadband Churn Is Not Inevitable
Broadband operators across the US, UK, Europe, and Japan are losing approximately $189 billion annually in lifetime customer revenue to churn — and roughly half of that is avoidable. Survey...
Broadband Churn Is Not Inevitable
Broadband operators across the US, UK, Europe, and Japan are losing approximately $189 billion annually in lifetime customer revenue to churn — and roughly half of that is avoidable. Survey...
Is Wi-Fi Finally as Secure as Cellular?
The Wireless Broadband Alliance has published its first comprehensive Wi-Fi Security Guidelines, establishing a standards-based framework covering authentication, encryption, identity privacy, and backhaul security. For managed Wi-Fi operators, the document...
Is Wi-Fi Finally as Secure as Cellular?
The Wireless Broadband Alliance has published its first comprehensive Wi-Fi Security Guidelines, establishing a standards-based framework covering authentication, encryption, identity privacy, and backhaul security. For managed Wi-Fi operators, the document...
What D2D, NTN, and the 'Data Centers ...
The satellite sector is undergoing rapid transformation, with direct-to-device (D2D) strategies, LEO constellation expansion, and orbital compute ambitions reshaping the competitive landscape in ways that have direct implications for in-flight...
What D2D, NTN, and the 'Data Centers in Space' Hype Mean for In-Fli...
The satellite sector is undergoing rapid transformation, with direct-to-device (D2D) strategies, LEO constellation expansion, and orbital compute ambitions reshaping the competitive landscape in ways that have direct implications for in-flight...
The Building Is the Network | Part 3 ...
Multifamily managed Wi-Fi providers are at an inflection point where their existing network infrastructure can support four distinct revenue streams beyond traditional bulk internet billing: IoT-as-a-service subscriptions, edge AI outcome-based...
The Building Is the Network | Part 3 of 3
Multifamily managed Wi-Fi providers are at an inflection point where their existing network infrastructure can support four distinct revenue streams beyond traditional bulk internet billing: IoT-as-a-service subscriptions, edge AI outcome-based...
Beyond the Build: How ISPs Win in a S...
U.S. broadband has fundamentally shifted in three years: fiber now covers 56% of American households, 71% of homes have access to two or more providers, and the digital divide has...
Beyond the Build: How ISPs Win in a Saturated US Broadband Market
U.S. broadband has fundamentally shifted in three years: fiber now covers 56% of American households, 71% of homes have access to two or more providers, and the digital divide has...