Unlicensed Spectrum – a wireless pathway for OTT disruption?

This report analyses the emergence of unlicensed spectrum as a disruptive force in the Australian telecommunications market. With mobile internet traffic growing 9x over the past five years, reaching 175,076 Terabytes in 2017, new technologies like LTE-A in Unlicensed and MulteFire are enabling OTT providers to bypass traditional infrastructure. The report examines how players like Facebook, Google, and Amazon are lobbying for spectrum liberalization to deploy their own wireless broadband solutions, potentially challenging established MNOs and the NBN.