FWA growth, high SVOD churn, included in Deloitte Global TMT 2022 predictions

By Amanda OYE

FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS (FWA), connections will grow to around 88 million in 2022, increasing from about 60 million in 2020, Deloitte Global has predicted. The economics as well as the data rate performance of FWA, “which uses radio waves to deliver internet service between two stationary locations such as a mobile tower and a customer’s home or office, are finally becoming competitive with that of wired internet services,” reads Deloitte’s 2022 Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions report. Along with predicting the increase in FWA connections from 60 million to 88 million, Deloitte is predicting 5G FWA will represent nearly 7%...