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US to Lead, Europe to Lag, China to Dominate 5G![]() The US will be a first mover when it comes to 5G launches, but China will quickly dominate the market for 5G connections, according to new research from CCS Insights, which echoes other recent reports and the general consensus from last month's Mobile World Congress event. (See GSMA: US Will See Fastest Customer Migration to 5G.) The US, South Korea and Japan will see commercial 5G launches in 2019, followed by Western Europe. China won't be the first mover, but will see 100 million connections in 2021 and pass 1 billion in 2025, accounting for about four in ten global 5G connections, the analyst firm says. (See China Mobile Stands Alone in Ambitious 5G Plans.) Western Europe, which has been slower to move to 5G, will hit 100 million 5G connections by early 2023, CCS Insights says. (See UK Forms Government-Backed 5G Task Force.) Overall, CCS predicts that 5G connections will reach 280 million in 2021, growing to 2.7 billion in 2025. This represents a 25% increase over its previous forecasts, owing to market momentum in the past six months in terms of standards development, "trials, deployment of chipsets and infrastructure and operator commitments to the technology." (See 5G Across the Globe: Where the Puck's Going .)
Early 5G devices will likely be mobile hotspots, but CCS Insights says that mass adoption will not come until smartphones are available -- expected in 2019 in small numbers and ramping up from then on. CCS says to expect over 350 million 5G handsets sold in worldwide in 2021, and that mobile broadband will still represent 98% of all 5G connections by 2025. — Sarah Thomas, Contributing Editor, Telco Transformation |
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AT&T says it is ready to go commercial with 5G having consistently achieved 1Gbit/s speeds on mmWave connections in its trials.
NSF is pledging $100 million over seven years in a public-private partnership to test 5G technologies in real-world scenarios in Salt Lake City and New York City.
A new report from the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission plays up the potential for 5G speeds, suggesting 5G could persuade consumers to give up fixed-line broadband.
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Orange has been one of the leading proponents of SDN and NFV. In this Telco Transformation radio show, Orange's John Isch provides some perspective on his company's NFV/SDN journey.
![]() Huawei Network Transformation Seminar The adoption of virtualization technology and cloud architectures by telecom network operators is now well underway but there is still a long way to go before the transition to an era of Network Functions Cloudification (NFC) is complete. |
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