Jake Saunders
Vice President
Research Focus
Jake Saunders, Vice President, Asia-Pacific & Advisory Services, heads ABI Research’s Asia-Pacific research division. Jake brings highly developed analytical skills to the company, combined with years of expertise in the technology market research business and a proven track record of operations management. He devotes particular attention to the Asia-Pacific market in relation to its mobile operator strategic positioning, infrastructure vendors, mobile device vendors, and chipset manufacturers.
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Insights
Chinese Open-Source Server OS Initiatives Are Starting to Challenge Western Influence
Insight | 4Q 2024 | IN-7653
The Role of Extremely Large Antenna Arrays in Improving the QoE for End Users and IoT Applications
Insight | 4Q 2024 | IN-7550
Why Is Verizon Doubling Down on Its Satellite NTN Commitments?
Insight | 3Q 2024 | IN-7505
SpeQtral—Using Satellites to Support Quantum Key Distribution
Insight | 3Q 2024 | IN-7417
Start-up HAPS & GEO Constellation Plans to Target the Unconnected in Asia with Innovative Broadband Access
Insight | 3Q 2024 | IN-7376
Singapore Aspires to be Quantum-Safe Network Pioneer for Government & Financial Services
Insight | 3Q 2024 | IN-7407
Chinese Satellite and Smartphone Firms Prepare for Satellite NTN Market Launch
Insight | 1Q 2024 | IN-7206
China Is Leaving the Rest of the World in Its 5G Wake
Insight | 4Q 2023 | IN-7131
CSPs, Have You Optimized Your Base Station Antenna Assets?
Insight | 4Q 2023 | IN-7117
Nokia’s 5GtoB Activities Proving to Be a Beacon of Success for the Vendor
Insight | 3Q 2023 | IN-7035
ETSI Gathers Points of View from Asian Telcos and Sets Out Future NFV Development
Insight | 3Q 2023 | IN-7032
China’s Investments in 5G Power Ahead in 5G … Paving the Way for 5G-Advanced-Based Services
Insight | 1Q 2023 | IN-6801
Asia-Pacific Cellular Antenna Market Expands Based on Passive and Active Antenna Sales
Insight | 1Q 2023 | IN-6798
Investments by Vendors in E-Band mmWave Backhaul Technologies Are Now Paying Off for CSPs
Insight | 4Q 2022 | IN-6728
The IEA Highlights Increased Investments in Energy Grids in 2022… Now, We Just Need to Make Them Smarter
Insight | 3Q 2022 | IN-6652
700 MHz is Becoming an Invaluable Spectrum Tool in the Mobile Operator’s Toolbox
Insight | 1Q 2022 | IN-6408
E-Band Backhaul Links Are on the Rise, But Satcom Backhaul Links Are on the Horizon
Insight | 1Q 2022 | IN-6361
Glasgow Climate Change Conference is a Receding Memory but What Are Telecoms Doing?
Insight | 4Q 2021 | IN-6392
5G Brings Deterministic, Security, and Network Slicing to Smart Grids
Insight | 4Q 2021 | IN-6349
Wireless Telcos Can Help Pivot Incumbent Energy Grids to Smart Energy Grids
Insight | 4Q 2021 | IN-6336
How China’s Telecom Operators Are Revolutionizing Healthcare Services
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6283
How China's Newest Mobile Operator is Standing its Ground in the 5G Market
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6272
NTT Docomo Embraces XR for the Olympics and Beyond
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6244
5G and Federated Edge Computing Could Turbo Charge the Cloud Gaming Market
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6201
Meeting the Requirements of Rural Community Broadband Connectivity
Insight | 2Q 2021 | IN-6144
Provisioning the Transport Architecture for 5G Network Slicing
Insight | 1Q 2021 | IN-6035
The Mobile Telco Sector Needs to Double Down on Open Standards and an Open Playing Field
Insight | 1Q 2021 | IN-5999
5G Investment Accelerates but Telcos Cannot Ignore Their Antenna Upgrades
Insight | 4Q 2020 | IN-5998
China Mobile and Huawei Carry Out a PoC Project in Edge Computing-Enabled Smart Factories
Insight | 1Q 2020 | IN-5706
World Radio Congress 2019 Wraps, More Spectrum for 5G but Satellite and HAPS Major Winners
Insight | 1Q 2020 | IN-5690
SK Telecom Leverages Kakao’s Location and Gig Economy Tech to Enrich 5G
Insight | 1Q 2020 | IN-5705
Research
Embracing Security As A Core Component Of The Tech You Buy
Whitepaper | 1Q 2024 | WP-1040
Cloud-Native Platforms And Management Trends: Outlook For Standards And Containers
Whitepaper | 4Q 2023 | WP-1028
5G End-to-End Core Network Automation and Orchestration
Competitive Ranking | 4Q 2023 | CA-1462
NTN-Mobile Will Reshape the Communications Service Provider Industry
Whitepaper | 4Q 2023 | WP-1024
Innovations in the 5G Distributed Antenna Systems Market
Whitepaper | 4Q 2023 | WP-1023
Satellite Backhaul: Maximizing Cellular Communications
Whitepaper | 4Q 2022 | WP-1010
Telco Cloud Infrastructure And Services Outlook: Private, Public, And Hybrid
Whitepaper | 4Q 2022 | WP-1008
Broadband Communications In Africa: Spectrum, Solutions and Objectives
Whitepaper | 2Q 2022 | WP-WNGH-193
Chinese Wi-Fi Device and Chipset Ecosystem
Report | 4Q 2021 | AN-5530
Emerging Markets Broadband Objectives: Spectrum Requirements
Whitepaper | 4Q 2021 | WP-WNGH-185
Transformational Technology Summit: Visions of Smart City Upgrades In Asia
Presentation | 1Q 2021 | PT-2516
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Summit: Manufacturing in Asia
Presentation | 4Q 2020 | PT-2428
Transport and Logistics In APAC: COVID-19 Response and Industry Analysis
Presentation | 3Q 2020 | PT-2387
Jake Saunders In The News
What Role Could AI Play in Satellite Network Management?
Constellations (2024-06-26)
As Jake Saunders of ABI Research explained to Constellations, “Satellite communication networks, like all telecommunication networks, are becoming increasingly complex and the demands to control, or even reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) keeps ratcheting up.”
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Fixed Wireless Access to help reduce the digital divide in Southeast Asia
SME Horizon (2024-01-12)
According to global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, the Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) market will constitute 7.87 million subscriptions by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 13% between 2023 and 2028. Jake Saunders, VP for Asia Pacific, notes, “The next stage of 5G FWA in South-East Asia is using...
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Starlink Direct to Cell blasts off, puts cell towers in space
SDX Central (2024-01-3)
“We are seeing that the market is evolving quickly, and many services are finding enhanced deployment through strategic alliances and from increased bandwidth supply in LEO,” Jake Saunders, VP of Asia Pacific at ABI Research, wrote. “With satellites becoming smaller, more affordable, and reaching...
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5G FWA mmWave: A revenue game changer for telcos
RCR Wireless News (2023-08-14)
Article by Jake Saunders
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As South Korea, China top Asia-Pacific internet speeds, can ‘very proud’ 5G roll-out extend to rest of region?
South China Morning Post (2023-06-8)
About 16 per cent of Asia has 5G coverage while nearly all of Asia has 4G coverage, said Jake Saunders, Asia-Pacific director at technology research firm ABI Research. But about 36 per cent are “internet offline”, meaning they have no access at all, he said. Asia-Pacific is on track for 5G...
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The Opportunity for 5G-Advanced to Shape Enterprise Applications
APAC CIO Outlook (2023-02-22)
Article by Jake Saunders
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Most 5G sites in emerging markets will be sub-6 GHz by 2026: Study
RCR Wireless News (2021-11-19)
ABI Research forecasts that approximately 90% of 5G cell sites in emerging markets will be operating with support for a combination of sub-6 GHz bands by 2026.
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RCR Wireless News: 4G LTE, the foundation for 5G (Analyst Angle)
RCR Wireless News (2021-07-30)
Article by Jake Saunders
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Computer Weekly: APAC datacentres gear up for the future
Computer Weekly (2021-07-16)
Jake Saunders, vice-president for advisory services at ABI Research, points out that larger datacentres and hyperscalers are deploying localised facilities at the edge of the network to improve latency and availability performance, especially for applications like cloud gaming, connected vehicles...
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Computer Weekly: Cloud RANs offer promise in APAC, but not in near future
Computer Weekly (2020-11-11)
Aside from hardware cost savings and boosts in efficiencies, virtualised centralised RANs – also known as cloud RANs – are able to pool together the management of radio resources, notes Jake Saunders, vice president for mobile infrastructure at ABI Research. “Once all the elements are virtualised,...
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China Daily: Southeast Asia open to Huawei over 5G
China Daily (2019-08-6)
Jake Saunders, vice-president of Asia-Pacific advisory services at ABI Research, a market intelligence company, said: "Frankly, I can't really see any sort of ground (for these allegations) in terms of security." "If you really want to make communications more secure, individual companies can put...
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Mobile World Live: Singapore plots path to 5G leadership
Mobile World Live (2019-07-15)
Jake Saunders, VP for Asia Pacific at ABI Research, told Mobile World Live China wants to play catchup and make 5G a platform for the wider industrial development of the country, not just simply for communications. “The most interesting development is not whether 5G is a success, but whether it can...
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RCR Wireless News: Carriers will spend $20B on rural cell sites globally this year, ABI says
RCR Wireless News (2019-07-11)
“Several mobile network operators are taking proactive steps to prioritize the coverage needs of their rural end-users,” said Jake Saunders, VP at ABI Research. “Telefonica has enabled mobile connectivity in remote Latin America by using the Parallel Wireless vRAN solution, which features multi-mode...
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Bloomberg: Huawei-U.S. Clash Mars China's Biggest Mobile Forum
Bloomberg News (2019-06-25)
“The danger for international companies, especially American companies, is that they are ceding these opportunities to influence the marketplace to non-American companies, which can have knock-on consequences that could be far greater than some had anticipated,’’ said Jake Saunders, a vice president...
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The LA Times: Why a ban on Huawei is being ignored by some of the oldest U.S. allies in Asia
Los Angeles Times (2019-06-10)
“Duterte is trying to maintain the political status quo,” said Jake Saunders, a Singapore-based analyst for ABI Research. “America’s economic and political connections go back multiple decades, but China has got a lot of money. That duality is putting a lot of friction on” the decision over Huawei,...
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BBC News: Samsung's Shrinking Profits (video 2:04)
BBC News (2019-01-8)
Jake Saunders discusses Samsung's shrinking profits
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