Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “5G”
Author: Martyn Roetter
Published: 2020-07-16
Europe’s assets provide a solid foundation on which to build and sustain a leading global role in the exploitation of 5G technologies. Europe has two of the three largest vendors of mobile infrastructure in the world—Ericsson and Nokia—and mobile operators with vast local and global reach—Vodafone, Deutsche Telecom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, and Telenor. Its consumers enjoy good competitive deals …
Author: Martyn Roetter
Published: 2020-07-10
The future of 5G in France has been the topic of several public policy and regulatory initiatives following the country’s early auction of 700 MHz spectrum for mobile services in 2015. However, despite early progress and the best intentions, France is more than a year behind many of its neighbors in launching 5G. With commercial 5G services available in ten …
Author: Martyn Roetter
Published: 2020-06-16
In June 2019, Germany’s national telecoms regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) conducted an auction of 5G frequencies in mid-bands, including 3.5 GHz. BNetzA is now planning the release of high-band 26 GHz spectrum for 5G. This would make Germany, after Italy and Finland, only the third country in the European Union (EU) to enable the market for turbo-charged ‘millimeter wave’ 5G. …
Author: Martyn Roetter & Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2020-04-27
With Europe’s biggest countries using lockdowns and quarantines to battle the spread of the coronavirus, the importance of mobile networks has become more apparent than ever, as people work, study, and shop for essentials from home, requiring connectivity from both fixed and mobile networks. But the lockdowns have also caused delays in processes to award spectrum for 5G in countries …
Author: Martyn Roetter
Published: 2020-04-06
How can we achieve data speeds 10x faster, latency 10x lower, and support a much higher density of simultaneous Internet of Things (IoT) connections in 5G than in 4G? Electronic communications regulators are awarding millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum frequencies for 5G deployments to address the challenges and deliver the promises of 5G. Until recently, we have ignored mmWave bands and considered …
Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2019-06-06
Will the current geopolitical tensions affect the wireless industry’s ability to maintain single global technology standards? Technology companies choose to compete within a single standard or engage in battle-of-standards. Beyond companies’ decisions, governments also shape standardization, constraining the private sector’s choices. National and regional standard bodies have traditionally shaped wireless standards, but that changed over time. The novelty of 4G …
Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2019-05-20
The Trump Administration’s recent telecom networks security executive order, which has the practical effect of a comprehensive ban on Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE, is just one of the significant challenges China is facing as a center of telecom manufacturing. Less obvious is the fact that China is facing another headwind: its primary source of competitiveness—low-cost industrial production—is eroding …
Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2019-05-06
The fifth generation of mobile technologies comes in a very different international environment than previous ones: 2G emerged in the late 1980s when the Cold War was ending; 3G in the early 2000s as China entered the world trade system, becoming a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO); By 2010, these events enabled 4G to be (for the first …
Author: Adam Rosenberg
Published: 2017-09-08
China’s leaders believe 5G will help drive its economy into the future. While both the commercial potential of 5G and the huge costs required to build 5G networks have been well publicized, the economic policies Beijing is employing to make China the first truly 5G country are not widely reported. In China’s 13th five-year plan the central government labeled the …
Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2015-12-01
The spin doctors are shooting out press releases claiming victory at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-15). It is in the nature of the consensus politics of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) that there is always something for everyone. In radio communications, it was in 2000 this approach took root, as a commentator then said: “The WRC-2000 introduced a new …
Author: Michael Newlands
Published: 2015-01-27
With the news that Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University has opened its own 5G Development Centre, it’s safe to say the search for the building blocks of the next-generation of mobile data services is now truly international. The Chinese-backed research facility is going to be looking into “achieving 5G’s anticipated speeds of up to 800Gbps and thousand-fold increase in capacity.” Or in …
Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2014-05-19
Perhaps the biggest success of Pakistan’s just-completed spectrum auctions for next-generation mobile services (NGMS) may have passed unnoticed. This is the upcoming shift from a voice-centric mobile industry to a data-centric one. Via the auction, the Ministry of Information Technologies (MOIT) and the Pakistan Telecoms Authority (PTA) have ensured the most advanced mobile broadband technologies available in the world today …
Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2014-03-10
Several years ago, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a UN body for telecoms policy, released a definition of 4G which its 193 member states should have adhered to (http://www.itu.int). They didn't. As a result, it is now being very careful not to say 5G. A key part of the 4G specification was minimum upload and download speeds and these are …