FWA can serve multiple scenarios and use cases due to its ease of deployment and flexibility. FWA can also serve a wide variety of scenarios, such as rural regions, geographically challenging locations (e.g., islands and beaches), urban and sub-urban locations, enterprises and SOHO.
Mobile operators will have to be aware of the use cases that FWA can provide for customers and look toward incorporating some of these into their long-term FWA strategy. Currently, DOU and data rate needs for FWA are growing faster than mobile cellular. For example, T-Mobile reports that its average FWA user has a DOU of between 300 GB and 400 GB, with 10% of its FWA users consuming 1 Terabyte (TB) of data per month. As 5G FWA can provide gigabit bandwidths, many new use cases can be offered to customers. This includes 4K solutions, such as 4K high-definition video services, live-streaming sporting events, cloud gaming solutions and advanced AR and VR services.
