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Editorial Coverage: The multibillion-dollar internet, voice,
video and data services markets are poised to be rapidly
transformed by the deployment of next-generation wireless
technologies such as 5G. As this transition occurs over the next
decade, 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) will give way to 5G amid
skyrocketing demand for greater bandwidth. While many companies are
already providing some form of fixed wireless for high-speed triple
play services (internet, TV and phone) using standard technologies,
Hammer Fiber Optic Holdings Corp. (HMMR) (HMMR
Profile) stands out with its patented
Hammer Wireless® AIR point-to-multipoint wireless system, which
could revolutionize the entire industry’s approach to wireless.
This would be no small feat considering that other big companies in
this space today are operators such as Windstream Holdings
Inc. (WIN) or veritable household names such as
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), AT&T
Inc. (T) and Alphabet, Inc. (GOOG).
IoT and Demand for Faster Data Driving 5G
Expansion
Key drivers of the transition to 5G include a burgeoning IoT
(internet of things) ecosystem spurred on by the growth of
connected smart homes and cities, as well as increasing smartphone
use, M2M (mobile to mobile) demands and the need to bridge the
so-called digital divide that has left nearly 40 percent of rural
Americans without access to broadband internet (http://nnw.fm/aI8P9). The extremely aggressive
deregulatory stance of the FCC under Chairman Ajit Pai is
increasingly focused on eliminating unnecessary barriers to the
efficient deployment of wireless infrastructure. This is great news
for the telecom industry, and the $118 billion U.S. ISP (internet
service provider) market could be the biggest beneficiary (http://nnw.fm/eAj9N).
IoT and other digital networking advancements in agritech, for
instance, allow farmers across rural America to perform a wide
variety of sophisticated tasks, such as monitoring the health of
individual animals or plants. But without broadband wireless
connectivity, the fruits of such advancements are nearly impossible
to fully realize. Global outlays for IoT infrastructure are on
track to hit a whopping $1.7 trillion by 2020, according to a
recent report by IDC (http://nnw.fm/cyQ4D), maintaining a 19.2 percent CAGR,
even as telecoms here in the United States spend $150 billion or
more upgrading to 5G (http://nnw.fm/dT9uA).
Unique, Patented Hardware Sets Innovators
Apart
Hammer Fiber Optics’ (HMMR) patented AIR
System was designed around and is based on ultra-high-frequency
MMDS (multichannel multipoint distribution system), utilizing
frequency division duplexing for upstream and downstream (200 MHz
spacing). This enables a single transmission to be shared by
multiple independent signals. With such efficient use of the
spectrum, Hammer’s AIR System can handle two separate signals at
once across a wide range of frequencies (from 3 GHz to 39 GHz),
meaning spectrum in different frequencies and channels can be
processed by one transceiver. This pre-5G platform is DOCSIS 3.0
compliant and is scalable to DOCSIS 3.1, allowing for speeds of 1
Gb/s and up.
Using a simple, roof-mounted, bidirectional transceiver dish
that is then connected to standard in-home hardware such as a cable
modem or gateway via coaxial cable, Hammer Fiber Optics’ solution
is an ingenious marriage of cutting-edge wireless transmission
technology and the kind of equipment most consumers already have in
their homes. The company has already deployed this technology on
Absecon Island, including Atlantic City, N.J., with happy customers
seeing speeds around 300-plus Mbps downstream (100 Mbps upstream).
The recent announcement that the company concluded initial
development of its advanced LTE fixed wireless system means Hammer
is now poised to become a leader in 5G as the standard emerges
(http://nnw.fm/jE6Et).
Designed to complement Hammer’s core business of home
residential services, this Fixed LTE version of its already
successful DOCSIS platform will enable the company to offer
ultra-high capacity cellular broadband applications. This
development puts Hammer in the running to provide wholesale
services including backhaul support for cellular network operators
to both mainstream LTE operators and competitive carriers.
Moreover, the company further distinguished itself with a recent
move to acquire 1stPoint Communications, LLC, and its subsidiaries,
a company that is focused on providing integrated messaging, voice,
data and mobile services to the small business, enterprise and
carrier markets.
Forget Fixed and Mobile 5G
The subsequent announcement that Hammer and 1stPoint have
launched an MNSP (mobile network service provider) program aimed at
wireless internet service providers and cable operators in second-
and third-tier markets means that the company should be able to
quickly expand its subscriber base by offering high-speed wireless
triple play service to residential communities and small
businesses. Hammer’s founder, Mark Stogdill, was keen to point out
how the company now stands ready to support not only residential
access networks but also empower customers such as carriers and
municipalities to deploy a variety of applications through the
company’s network. The MNSP program enables an “everything
wireless” approach that could potentially shatter the existing
triple play-saturated market paradigm.
This is a watershed moment for Hammer as the company may be in a
great position to springboard off its successful deployment of the
AIR System into a data-hungry nationwide, as well as global,
market. Hammer’s AIR System is now looking to many industry
analysts like it may be the ideal solution for everything from
bridging the digital divide in underserved rural communities to
addressing increasingly abundant data roaming opportunities and M2M
concerns. This innovative, patented technology represents what
could be a major advantage for the company, as no one in the
industry today offers what Hammer is already doing.
The global 5G market is set to run at an astounding 97 percent
CAGR from 2020, when it is predicted to largely supplant 4G,
climbing to around $251 billion by 2025 (http://nnw.fm/O3UrW). With its strong footing due to
its advanced hardware offering, Hammer may be able to carve out a
sizeable piece of this pie. Investors may want to keep an eye on
this compelling up-and-comer.
Other Major Players’ Efforts Accelerating Towards
5G
FORTUNE 500 advanced network communications and technology
solutions provider Windstream Holdings Inc. (WIN)
recently announced a $2 million investment in high-speed Kinetic
Internet services for Lexington, Kentucky. This regional market is
bedrock for Windstream, and the company is shrewdly doubling down
by increasing the number of households receiving 50 Mbps
connections to some 80,000 households. Windstream also joined
several other high-profile signatories recently in the submission
of a compromise approach proposal to the FCC for priority access
licenses in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) 3.5 GHz
spectrum, a move that would arguably make the CBRS band an
important vehicle for helping the United States sustain leadership
in communications technologies such as 5G.
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) announced
plans in 2017 to implement fixed 5G services in three to five U.S.
cities this year. Verizon is chomping at the bit to beat rivals to
the 5G market trough and will be deploying the company’s solution
to customers’ homes and offices via nearby standard cell sites.
Verizon also recently announced plans to launch residential
broadband services through 5G fixed wireless in more than the
initial proposed five geographies starting sometime in 2019.
Verizon will reportedly be targeting the sprawling L.A. market, as
well as Sacramento, for the 5G rollout starting in the fourth
quarter of this year, in conjunction with the rollout of the
carrier’s proprietary V5GTF customer premises equipment.
AT&T Inc. (T) CFO John Stephens recently
cast some doubts on the value of fixed 5G services for the company,
arguing that while AT&T had tested fixed 5G, the opportunity is
something that the company would have to “prove out.” Apparently,
Stephens sees backhaul, a key component to any fixed wireless 5G
service, as something more easily addressed for AT&T via the
company’s growing fiber network. Nevertheless AT&T has spent
two years preparing for the 5G launch and plans to have 5G-capable
devices to customers this year. The company launched its first
enterprise 5G trial in Austin, Texas, a year and a half ago and
subsequently expanded those services to three other cities across
the country. AT&T announced plans in April to launch the
company’s proprietary 5G Evolution technology to an upwardly
revised total of 141 markets and said last year that the company
would deploy mobile 5G to customers in a dozen cities.
Alphabet, Inc. (GOOG) was recently mentioned as
a potential streaming partner for Verizon via Google's YouTube TV,
a partnership that would help accelerate 5G adoption. The company
also supports the Citizens Broadband Radio Service and appears to
many analysts to be intent on advocating for a new way to divvy up
spectrum that would promote innovative business models and shared
infrastructure. A shared use spectrum model makes sense for the
company, as Alphabet would otherwise have to compete directly with
wireless and wired ISPs that already possess sizeable fiber
networks and wireless spectrum licenses.
While many companies tout new user hardware and 5G innovation,
Hammer Fiber Optics stands out as a technological innovator in
distribution technology, and the company appears to have a distinct
advantage even compared to sector majors. The race to capture fixed
and mobile 5G market share is clearly on, and investors should be
watching the activities of a company such as Hammer that may have a
transformative impact on the entire industry.
For more information on Hammer Fiber Optics Holdings
Corporation, please visit: Hammer Fiber
Optics (HMMR).
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