5G MARKET REPORT
“Once businesses start taking advantage of 5G rollouts, eMBB will open plenty of
opportunities to sell into the media and entertainment industry; for example, with VR and AR
tech far beyond what we have now.” Dr Arslan Usman, Systems Architect at Pangea
5G conspiracy theories
If you have spent any time reading the mainstream news you will
have come across the 5G conspiracy theories floating around. In
short, they fall into three broad theories.
• Myth 1: 5G suppresses the immune system so much that it
allows you to catch Coronavirus easily.
• Myth 2: The virus can travel on 5G waves and invade the
human body
• Myth 3: 5G masts are killing smaller animals including birds
Last month we were selling
100GB of data for £50 pcm
and this month you can buy an
Unlimited (FUP 650GB) data
SIM for £18 pcm. Have the
MNOs magically found a way
to reduce their cost of running a
network by 96%?
Of course not. ere is no
reason for mobile data to be
more expensive than xed line
data. In fact, without the need
to physically enter a building it
should be cheaper.”
eSIM and the future of 5G
Many have heralded 5G as the
great catalyst for IoT. Alongside
the availability of the eSIM,
a programable SIM card
which never needs to leave a
device, and then suddenly the
proposition makes sense. eSIMs
can be embedded into devices
or delivered as a traditional
removeable SIMs. Instead of
swapping plastic SIM cards,
proles are downloaded and
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solutions, which will see a surge
in demand as 5G coverage
increases.”
The future of fixed line
e speeds 5G can deliver are
compelling, but are we at the
point where xed line revenues
are in danger because of the
potential delivery of high speed
connectivity over this new
technology?
Mark Gilmour said, “In a
word, no. In the enterprise
space , 5G wireless access
will be complementary to
xed bre based connectivity,
perhaps used as a faster service
turn-up model whilst physical
construction takes place, or as
a redundant route for business
continuity scenarios. In the
consumer space, 5G Fixed
Wireless Access (FWA) will
nd a market alongside bre
fed home broadband. It will
be useful in reaching more
premises quickly and will be
Andrew Dickinson, MD of Jola
a good model for bringing on
new service whilst the bre
rollout follows behind.”
Dr Arslan Usman
commented, “With 5G’s
capability to cover so many
commercial, residential, and
industrial requirements, it’s
denitely going to give legacy
networks a run for their money.
But just because it’ll shake
up the industry, doesn’t mean
it’s going to completely replace
xed connectivity with mobile.
For one thing, 5G is still a ways
o being available everywhere;
we’re bound to see powerful
xed-line innovations enter the
market in that time.
And for another, there’s a lot
to be said for combining the
power of 5G and xed-lines.
Take xed 5G wireless modems,
for example: built to bridge the
last mile gap for users facing
bottleneck or deployment issues,
they’ll remove the need to rip
up lengths of road and save
businesses loads of time and
money.”
Andrew Dickinson said
“Incidentally, has anyone noticed
the price of mobile data recently?
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