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There is growing industry consensus that the enterprise segment offers the biggest incremental revenue opportunity for operators in the 5G era – $700bn by 2030 (Ericsson).
With 5G network rolling out, the leading operators have started to deploy the enterprise use cases on live networks and are benefiting from unique characteristics such as fast mobile broadband, ultra-reliable network and network slicing. The following case studies will demonstrate what the use cases are and how operators deploy the services on the 5G network.
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GSMA Future Networks: 5G Ecosystem Directory
Tuesday 14 April, 2020 | 5G | 5G Digest | Latest News
The Future Networks team continue to work towards expanding the 5G Operator Platform ecosystem, and we are compiling a collaborative list of stakeholders who are filling various roles to support the 5G Era. The 5G Operator Platform Ecosystem Directory will list companies by ...
Ensuring positive outcomes from 5G rural rollout: KDDI & SoftBank
Monday 6 April, 2020 | 5G | 5G Digest | Latest News
KDDI and SoftBank have established a joint venture to build out 5G technology in rural areas. The agreement will include the ‘mutual use’ of existing base stations and management of new sites, which will accelerate deployments in rural Japan. This follows a recent ...
Open RAN trials gaining traction
Monday 30 March, 2020 | 5G | 5G Digest | Latest News
Telefónica has partnered with Altiostar, Gigatera Communications, Intel, Supermicro and Xilinx to assist in the development and deployment of open RAN solutions. This follows an announcement from the operator that it would also be conducting 4G and 5G Open RAN trials in key ...
Lufthansa pilots standalone 5G networks in aircraft maintenance industry
Monday 9 March, 2020 | 5G | 5G Digest | Latest News
Lufthansa Technik is working with Vodafone and Nokia to test its own private 5G networks on two separate projects. One enables clients to remotely join the airline’s engineers in real-time inspections of engine parts; the other project applies live AR/VR to overlay ...
Operators & GSMA join forces on edge computing push
Friday 28 February, 2020 | 5G | 5G Digest | Latest News
A group of leading operators, backed by the GSMA, teamed to develop an interoperable platform for edge computing, with the goal of making the solutions more accessible to end users and enterprises. In a statement, the GSMA said it would support a partnership between ...
2019 saw 5G become a commercial reality – 2020 will take it to the mass market
Thursday 2 January, 2020 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
2019 was without question the year of 5G, as the industry took it from the conceptual phase of standardisation of 2018, to worldwide consumer launches. This is primarily due to the successful collaborative efforts made by the industry to identify common challenges, share ...
Verizon adds VR to its media portfolio with Jaunt XR deal
Monday 7 October, 2019 | 5G | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
Verizon has acquired the AR and VR technology assets of Jaunt XR, a start-up that has raised over $100 million since 2013. The deal bolsters Verizon’s capabilities in AR/VR, adding to its RYOT portfolio which is building immersive entertainment content for the operator’s 5G ...
GSMA Future Networks 5G Global Launch Update: Revenue generated to hit $4.2 billion by next year (Gartner)
Tuesday 1 October, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
GSMA Future Networks 5G Global Launch Update: Revenue generated to hit $4.2 billion by next year (Gartner) 5G’s development has continued apace over August, with new evidence of clear progress towards mainstream availability in both the shorter and longer term. By the start ...
5G Roaming is now a commercial reality
Wednesday 14 August, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
2019 has been widely referred to as ‘the year of 5G’, and it’s increasingly easy to see why. Following the first commercial launches in the US and South Korea (nationwide rollout by all three operators concurrently across all key cities and towns) on the 3rd of April this ...
5G will open Cloud XR to the mass market – if we work together
Sunday 7 July, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
Extended Reality, or XR – the spectrum of technologies including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), simulated reality (SR) and others – will deliver strikingly engaging visuals across a wide range of digital uses, in ways most people have never experienced. The ...
GSMA Convenes Industry to Discuss Future of LTE
Monday 29 April, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
The GSMA held a high-level meeting with over twenty representatives from mobile operators, regulatory bodies and equipment and chip vendors to discuss the future of the LTE industry. Participants exchanged views about the challenges facing operators as commercial 5G ...
Cloud XR to Bring New Commercial Avenues to Mobile Industry through 5G
Monday 18 March, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
Among the biggest opportunities of the 5G era is XR, or extended reality – the spectrum of technologies incorporating virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and simulated reality. VR, in particular, has felt like the ‘technology of tomorrow’ for some time, but ...
5G Takes Centre Stage at the MWC’s Innovation City
Monday 25 February, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
5G is not simply the latest incremental step from 4G – it’s an entirely different proposition altogether. 5G will completely transform the role connectivity plays in our everyday lives, making widespread some extraordinary use cases which were the preserve of a very few who ...
From DAS to Next Generation Indoor Systems: the Vital Shift for 5G-Readiness
Thursday 10 January, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
It has become increasingly apparent to the mobile industry in recent months that the networks of base stations which make its work possible are, in one very important way, imbalanced. The infrastructure which allows connected devices to talk to their networks – and to each ...
GSMA Launches New Forum to Support 5G Cloud-Based AR/VR
Thursday 29 November, 2018 | 5G Digest | AR/VR Digest | Digest | Latest News
At Huawei’s 9th Global Broadband Forum held in London we announced the launch of a new industry-wide initiative called The GSMA Cloud AR/VR Forum that is designed to accelerate the delivery and adoption of 5G cloud-based augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) ...
GSMA LAUNCHES NEW INDUSTRY-WIDE INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF OPERATOR EDGE CLOUD AR/VR
Wednesday 21 November, 2018 | 5G Digest | AR/VR Digest | Digest | Latest News | Press Release | Press Releases
Multiple Operators, Vendors and Content Providers to Collaborate to Accelerate Deployment of Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Technology London: The GSMA today announced the launch of a new industry-wide initiative called The GSMA Cloud AR/VR Forum that will focus on the ...
Leading the Way in 5G Fixed Wireless Access
Friday 26 October, 2018 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
“Connectivity is at the core of every company’s digital transformation. 5G will have a significant impact on how businesses work and how they engage with their customers” By Mo Katibeh, Chief Marketing Officer, AT&T Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), especially when ...
US Industry Talks up 5G Impact at Mobile World Congress Americas
Thursday 4 October, 2018 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
The United States is betting big on 5G. According to GSMA Intelligence there will be 1.3 billion global 5G connections by 2025 including 203 million in North America and three of four US operators have already announced plans to launch in select cities by the end of 2018. It ...
Future Networks Chairman Update #1
Wednesday 22 August, 2018 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Each month, we’ll bring you the latest news and insights from Arash Ashouriha, Chairman of the Future Networks Programme. Future Networks Chairman Update #1: China Mobile to Chair Future Networks Cloud X Project By Arash Ashouriha, SVP Group Technology Innovation, ...
Operators to Play Key Role in Delivery of Next Generation Virtual Reality through 5G
Wednesday 15 August, 2018 | 5G Digest | AR/VR Digest | Digest | Latest News
Among the most hotly anticipated developments of the digital age has been virtual reality, and its close relative augmented reality – known collectively as AR/VR. These transformative technologies are set to revolutionise the ways in which consumers interact with ...
