5G Innovation:

Europe
By Sean Kinney

JUNE 2016

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Introduction
In a report detailing 5G progress
among European Union member
countriess covering the period up
to June 2019, IDATE DigiWorld re-
searchers, working at the direction
of the European Commission, tallied
seven commercial launches and said
“5G is progressing well in Europe.”
In the European 5G Observatory’s
quarterly report, authors Frédéric
Pujol, Carole Manero and Tarek
Jaffal benchmarked how European
countries are progressing against
the European Commission’s 5G Ac-
tion Plan, which was adopted in
2016. The plan calls for early net-
work launches by the end of 2018
and “fully commercial” services by
the end of 2020 followed by com-
prehensive coverage in 2025.
According to the report, “During
the first half of 2019, many Europe-
an mobile operators were preparing
the commercial phase as the first
5G smartphones became available
in the second quarter. Commercial
services are available in a number
of cities in Europe.
Huawei has a number of 5G deals
throughout Europe, including an
end-to-end deal with Swiss operator
Sunrise. Huawei’s Zach Chang said
the pace of deployment is such that
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it’s difficult to make meaningful
comparisons beyond a simple snap-
shot. But he did note that, “Each
country holds 5G as a fundamental
and universal infrastructure. They
hold very long-term views on 5G.”
Near-term comparisons don’t carry
much weight he said, rather, “it’s
five years, 10 years. The short-term
benefit doesn’t matter that much.
It’s the long-term view--how you
use the infrastructure to enable
your society.”
One notable distinction between
5G strategy from both operators
and regulators in Europe and
the U.S. is spectrum. Verizon and
AT&T’s commercial launches last
year both rely on millimeter wave
spectrum, which provides more
capacity than lower bands but
with limited propagation char-
acteristics and has been quickly
made available for use by the U.S.
Federal Communications Commis-
sion. This requires significant in-
vestment in densification to serve
congested urban environments
and, ultimately, tapping low- and
mid-bands to provide wide area
coverage in building penetra-
tion. While European regulators
have articulated plans to auction
millimeter wave licenses, all of
the current and planned network
activations are based on mid-band
frequencies centered in the 3.4
GHz to 3.8 GHz range.
European Union officials are also
working to harmonize 5G spectrum
across member nations. In Janu-
ary, the European Commissionan-
nounced it will harmonize spec-
trum in the 3.6 GHz band for 5G. In
a statement, the EC said the harmo-
nization process of this spectrum
band will enable member states to
use this spectrum for 5G by the end
of 2020, adhering to rules set out in
the EU’s new Electronic Commu-
nications Code, which was cleared
in December 2018. “This band has
been harmonized for wireless
broadband services in the Europe-
an Union since 2008. However, its
use has been low and only a limited
number of licenses had been issued.
This amendment of the decision
updates the technical conditions
to make them 5G-ready as the 3.6
GHz band has been identified as
the primary pioneer band for 5G in
the European Union,” the EC said in
a statement.
More recently, in May, the EC has
adopted a decision to harmonize
the radio spectrum in the 26 GHz
band across the European Union for

the future use with 5G technology.
The decision finalizes the EU-wide
coordination of all three pioneer
bands (700 MHz, 3.6 GHz and 26
GHz) needed for 5G rollout in the
member states.
Following this implementing deci-
sion, member states can set common
technical conditions and subse-
quently allow the use of the 26 GHz
band for 5G systems by December
31, 2020, in line with the European
Electronic Communications Code.
The harmonization of the 26 GHz
band across Europe must be com-
pleted in all member states by the
end of March 2020, while effective
use of at least 1 GHz of this band will
follow by the end of 2020.
This focus on 5G spectrum har-
monization is a good thing, Lindsay
Notwell, Cradlepoint’s senior vice
president charged with 5G strategy
and global carrier operations, said,
particularly given the wide mix
of licensed, unlicensed and shared
spectrum that will ultimately carry
5G traffic. “We need to be thinking
about...the practical realities of
band combinations and permuta-
tions,” he said. “We’re soon to get
into six and seven [channel] carrier
aggregation in LTE, let alone 5G/4G
carrier aggregation. The number of
combinations are just insane. If you
want to be thorough in your testing,
that quickly becomes unrealistic in
terms of time and money.”
European operator round-up
The European 5G Observatory, in
a report published in June, tallied
eight operators offering commer-
cial 5G services in parts of seven
countries:
• Elisa in Finland and Estonia
• T-Mobile in Austria
• Sunrise and Swisscom in Swit-
zerland
• EE in the United Kingdom
• Vodafone in Spain
• Vodafone and Telecom Italia in
Italy
Elisa
Elisa serves around 2.8 million
customers in Finland and Estonia.
In 2018 the telco said it launched
a 5G network in the cities of Tam-
pere, Finland and Tallinn, Esto-
nia.The first person to use the 5G
network was Anne Berner, Fin-
land’s minister of transport and
communications. She who made
a video call to Kadri Simson, min-
ister of economic Affairs and in-
frastructure in Estonia. Elisa said
the 5G terminal device used in the
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video call was provided by Chinese
vendor Huawei.
Later in the year, the Nordic In-
vestment Bank (NIB) loaned Elisa
$113 million to accelerate the roll-
out of 5G. “The loan to Elisa facil-
itates the expansion of 5G infra-
structure in Finland and in Estonia.
Investments in 5G are vital for the
productivity of the Nordic–Baltic
companies, as the new mobile net-
work generates the knowledge ac-
cumulation in our member region’s
technology sector,” said Henrik
Normann, NIB’s President and CEO.
“Today, Finns use the most mobile
data in the world, and the majority
of the usage is in Elisa’s network.
Our next key investment target is
the introduction of 5G networks.
The needs of our customers as well
as new applications and services re-
quire more and more features and
speed,” said Elisa’s CEO, Veli-Matti
Mattila.
EE
EE officially launched commer-
cial 5G services in May. The carri-
er said that 5G services are initial-
ly available in London, Cardiff,
Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham
and Manchester.
EE will also be introducing 5G
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across the busiest parts of Bristol,
Coventry, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds,
Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle,
Nottingham and Sheffield through
the end of the year. In 2020, Aber-
deen, Bournemouth, Brighton, Cam-
bridge, Dundee, Exeter, Ipswich,
Norwich, Plymouth and York will
receive 5G coverage.
The telco said that consumers and
businesses can order 5G devices, in-
cluding smartphones from Samsung,
OnePlus, LG, and Oppo, a mobile
broadband device from HTC, and
a 5G home broadband router from
Huawei. The expectation is that cus-
tomers will experience an increase
in speeds of around 100 Mbps to 150
Image courtesy of EE/Twitter
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Mbps even in the busiest areas.
EE said the commercial launch
is the first phase of the telco’s 5G
rollout: a non-standalone 5G New
Radio deployment focused on using
the combined power of 4G and 5G
technologies. Phase 2, from 2022,
will introduce the full 5G core net-
work, enhanced device chipset ca-
pabilities, and increased availabili-
ty of 5G-ready spectrum.
EE said that higher bandwidth and
lower latency, coupled with expan-
sive and growing 5G coverage, will
enable a more responsive network,
enabling immersive mobile aug-
mented reality, real-time health mon-
itoring, and mobile cloud gaming.
A third phase, beginning in 2023,
will introduce Ultra-Reliable Low
Latency Communications (URLLC),
network slicing and multi-gigabit-
per-second speeds. This phase of
5G will enable critical applications
like real-time traffic management
of fleets of autonomous vehicles
and massive sensor networks.
Private networks
Most current 5G deployments are
very much focused on delivering
enhanced mobile broadband to con-
sumers. But leveraging connectivi-
ty to digitize and transform indus-
tries is drawing significant interest
from the telecom ecosystem given
the trends around stagnant ARPU
and slowing device upgrades. Com-
bining high speeds, low latency and
massive internet of things presents
the opportunity to open up new
markets on the back of new tech-
nologies and business cases.
Based on trial activity in Europe,
mining and port operations are
viewed as key industrial verticals
where 5G, and LTE, can make a
major impact--enabling autono-
mous operations, improving safety
and otherwise boosting efficiency
through real-time data capture
and analysis.
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Chang of Huawei said the EU
telecom ecosystem is more focused
on the industrial aspects of 5G than
counterparts in the U.S., with sig-
nificant trial activity around auto-
motive, manufacturing and other
verticals. “They are more willing to
test different models because the
application scenarios are more di-
verse. The EU has some real trials
of autonomous vehicles. They are
allowing manufacturers to test in
this area.” And this is essential, he
said, as 5G will embolden a “new
age of the economy.”
In an examination of 5G trial
activities with vertical focus, the
EC report tallied 32 trials served
media and entertainment, 25
Number of tests by vertical
Image courtesy of European 5G Observatory
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trials were for transport and 18 for
automotive use cases. Smart cities,
e-health and Industry 4.0 were in
the second tier of trial interest. By
region, Spain, France, Germany and
Italy accounted for 40% of all trials.
Notwell said, based on his con-
versations, there’s strong interest
in private networks for industrial
use across the U.S., Asia Pacific
region and Europe, although he
called out Germany as a leader.
With a massive industrial base
driving economic output, German
regulators have taken the proac-
tive step of dedicating mid-band
spectrum specifically for industri-
al private networks. “Anywhere
where you’ve got that kind of
infrastructure—manufacturing,
ports, logging, you need reliable
connectivity and Wi-Fi doesn’t al-
ways cut it.”
Under the umbrella of Industry
4.0 activity, Ericsson has teamed up
with Canadian systems integrator
Ambra Solutions to sell private LTE
and 5G networks to mining compa-
nies worldwide. Ambra will part-
ner with Ericsson customers, in the
shape of “global service providers,”
as part of the deal, delivering pri-
vate networks for the mining sector
in concert with telecoms operators.
Ericsson said the deal opens up
“exciting new opportunities and
revenue streams” for the operator
community. Ambra will repackage
Ericsson’s so-called Ericsson Ra-
dio System, which covers LTE and
5G NR core, radio and transport
functions, alongside consultancy,
platform, and security functions.
Up to 60 Wi-Fi access points will be
replaceable with a single “solution”,
said Ericsson.
Ambra will use LTE and 5G to
automate ventilation systems,
real-time personnel and vehicle
tracking, and remote control of ma-
chinery like scoop diggers, hauler
trucks, drillers, and other mining
equipment. The pair have already
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completed eight underground and

open pit mining deployments in
Canada, providing over 90 kilome-
ters of network coverage, they said.
Further, Swedish truck manufac-
turer Scania partnered with Toyota
of Japan to later go on and develop
its own lean production system,
with impressive results. “In the last

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20 years, we have doubled our pro-
ductivity, increasing production
from three trucks per employee
to six trucks per employee,” said
Björn Windbladh, head of Scania
Mining, By combining information
from connected trucks to its lean Port of Rotterdam.

production know-how, Scania has

developed Scania Site Optimization,
a service offering designed to help
mining operators improve their pro-
ductivity by helping them identify
waste and boost logistical flows.
As connected trucks enable new
data-driven value-added services,
Scania is gradually transitioning
from being a product manufacturer
to a provider of connected vehicle
services. Scania Site Optimization is
one such example, as Scania sells the
service for a monthly fee and gets a
share of the customer’s productiv-
ity gains. Scania has already signed
a couple of customers to Scania
Site Optimization, including Indian
mining operator VPR Mining.
All vehicles produced by Scania
today are connected. Right now, the
manufacturer is transitioning wire-
less connectivity in its trucks from
2G to 3G, while also collaborating
with Ericsson on 5G. Out of an in-
stalled base of 9,000-10,000 mining
vehicles, about 1,000 are connected.
“Our ambition is that all our vehi-
cles will use data and subscribe to
reports,” said Björn Windbladh. “We
are also offering consultancy and
advice services, as well as training
and also outsourced logistics.”
Looking into the port opportuni-
ty, Tadhg Kenny, Druid Software’s
senior vice president of business
development, recently discussed
the state of digital change in the
ports industry, with close consid-
eration for the role of private and
public cellular networks.
Some context, first. Until the mid-
dle of last decade, Rotterdam was
the largest port in the world. It has
since slipped to 11th, edged out by a
rush of six Chinese ports, as well as
Singapore, Busan, Hong Kong, and
Dubai. Even so, it remains Europe’s
preeminent maritime trading hub,
and a focal point for the region’s
Industry 4.0 assault.
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shipped each year across Druid
Software’s cellular IoT solution in
Rotterdam’s container terminals.
The company is engaged with Kon-
ing & Hartman on private LTE proj-
ects in a number of harbors, includ-
ing Rotterdam. The pair have just
extended their cooperation across
enterprise telecoms, industrial IoT
and healthcare solutions. Their
work on private networks has typ-
ically involved 4G small cells from
U.S.-based Airspan.
Druid Software’s Raemis plat-
form, a virtual ePC for management
of private networks, takes cellular
radios from any vendor and uni-
fies them into a high-quality mo-
bile network that can be managed
easily by IT technicians – in much
the same way as they manage their
existing IT systems. It is the beating
heart of the automation control
plane in Rotterdam.
Back in March, Nokia and Finnish
private LTE provider Ukkoverkot
signed a five-year deal to bring con-
nectivity, automation, and intel-
ligence to the Port of Oulu, also in
Finland. The project will start with
the establishment of a private LTE
network, attaching to IoT sensors,
on the site.
The private LTE network will
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provide “services… and solutions” with respect to capacity, usability
for the port area’s multi-function- and coverage.
al environment, said Ukkoverkot.
The port company will manage 5G Spotlight: Switzerland
and sell network capacity as-a-ser-
vice to local enterprises and users
of the premises.
The project will extend to cover
edge computing, automation, and
artificial intelligence (AI). The
Port of Oulu, a 15 minute drive
from Nokia’s own digital factory
in the city, located in central Fin-
land, said it wants to be a “pioneer
in port digitalisation”.
Cranes, lifts and other steve-
doring machines must be reliably
connected to receive and transmit “Switzerland is massively in
data during cargo operations, and the lead.”
private LTE and 5G networks pro- Lindsay Notwell, Senior Vice
vide the requisite levels of control, President, 5G Strategy & Global
latency and reliability.
Carrier Operations, Cradlepoint
The private LTE network in Oulu
will utilise the 2.6 GHz radio band, Speed testing authority Ookla
allocated in the vicinity to the port maintains a handy global map
as part of the deal. Ukkoverkot tracking various categories of 5G
retains both 2.6 GHz and 450 MHz deployments—pre-release, limited
and 2.6 GHz spectrum holdings for availability and commercial avail-
industrial and public safety net- ability. Even the most topical glance
works. The 2.6GHz band will enable would tell you that Europe clearly
5G services, too. has most of the global 5G deploy-
Nokia is supplying the networking ments and, with a bit of zooming, it’s
fear and digital automation plat- apparent that Switzerland is hands-
form. Its offer has been “tailored” down ahead of the pack.

Image courtesy of Ookla
5G
Today Swisscom and Sunrise are
both offering commercial 5G ser-
vices, with the third national oper-
ator Salt working to launch some-
time later this year. But before we
take stock of where those operators
are today and what’s coming, let’s
look back at the recent spectrum
auctions that set the stage.
5G spectrum in Switzerland
Switzerland’s Federal Commu-
nications Commission (ComCom)
raised $379 million following a Jan.
29 to Feb. 7 auction. Licenses were
awarded following a clock auction
format, which allowed the bidders
to bid on frequency blocks in all
the available frequency categories
simultaneously. ComCom said that
the implementation of spectrum
cap allowed the regulator to make
sure that all mobile operators were
able to acquire a wide range of 5G
frequencies at reasonable prices.
Salt secured 20 megahertz in the
700 MHz band, 80 megahertz in the
3.5 GHz band and 10 megahertz in
the 1.4 GHz band. Sunrise purchased
10 megahertz in the 700 MHz band,
100 megahertz in the 3.5 GHz range
and 15 megahertz in the 1.4 GHz
band. The carrier also secured an
additional 10 megahertz in the 700
MHz band, which are “supplemen-
tal downlink” frequencies that can
be used to increase data download
capacity in the future. Swisscom
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secured 30 megahertz in the 700
MHz band, 120 megahertz in the 3.5
GHz band and 50 megahertz in the
1.4 GHz band.
“The frequencies will be assigned
for 15 years, giving the operators
long-term planning security to de-
velop their networks. The outcome
of the auction has been recorded in
a decision that is contestable before
the Federal Administrative Court,”
ComCom said. “The awarding of
frequencies is of key importance
for the digitalization of Switzer-
land, and is in line with the Federal
Council’s ‘Digital Switzerland’ strat-
egy. In addition to powerful mobile
communications, 5G will enable
many new uses in future, including
the internet of things, medical ap-
plications (eHealth), image process-
ing applications (virtual reality,
augmented reality) or self-driving
vehicles. Switzerland is one of the
first countries in Europe to already
provide the 5G frequencies to net-
work operators.”
Salt
Salt is working with Nokia to begin
rolling out 5G this quarter. Nokia is
supplying core and radio access net-
work equipment based off of a deal
signed in January. In terms of use
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cases and applications, the carrier
called out video streaming and aug-
mented and virtual reality for the
consumer media market, and the
internet of things for verticals in-
cluding, smart cities, banking, man-
ufacturing and tourism.
“We are committed to providing
our customers with an outstand-
ing customer experience and have
identified Nokia as the right part-
ner to deliver exceptional mobile
experience,” Salt CEO Pascal Grie-
der said in a statement. “They con-
vinced us not only through their
advanced technological capabili-
ties but also their reliability and
security, which are paramount to
Swiss private users as well as our
country’s corporations.
Sunrise
Sunrise launched its 5G network
in March, initially covering more
than 150 towns, cities and village.
Huawei is providing end-to-end
technology to the operator. In ear-
ly testing, Sunrise and Huawei ex-
plored 5G for VR, panoramic video
broadcast, and 12-channel UHD vid-
eo. The tests yielded peak downlink
throughput around 3.28 Gbps.
In June 2018, Sunrise completed
the first end-to-end 5G standard
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network deployment, and
November, the telco deployed a
standards-based 5G network in the
Swiss ski resort Laax.
“With Huawei’s innovative
solution and global hands-on 5G
deployment experience, we
strongly confident to provide best
user experience to our customers
and become the number one 5G
provider in Switzerland,” CEO Olaf
Swantee said.
Swisscom
In April, Swisscom and Ericsson
turned on a live 5G network in 54
cities and communities, includ-
ing Zurich, Bern, Geneva, Basel,
Lausanna and Lucerne. The com-
pany has reiterated its goal to
have its 5G network operational
all over Switzerland by the end
of 2019, with close to 90% nation-
wide population coverage.
Swisscom highlighted 5G as an
enabler for infotainment, gaming,
VR and immersive media, as well as
opportunities covered by the um-
brella of Industry 4.0--the digital
transformation of industries.
Swisscom CEO Urs Schaeppi said
in a statement, “With the launch of
the first commercial 5G network
in Switzerland, we are laying the
in foundation for diverse, new applica-
tions and business models. This will
not only be great for Switzerland
but also inspiring for the people who
5G will now be part of the digital world
whether they are living in the city,
are countryside, or in the mountains.”
To achieve its coverage goal,
Swisscom said it would work with
Ericsson to use dynamic spectrum
sharing (DSS), with Ericsson’s spe-
cific product offering referred to
as Ericsson Spectrum Sharing. Er-
icsson Radio System gear sold since
2015 can support DSS via a software
update. At a high-level, DSS allows
an operator to simultaneously
serve up LTE and 5G NR in the same
band at the same time based on the
needs of the end user.
To extend 5G coverage in low-,
mid- and high-bands, “Classically
I’d need to re-farm,” Ericsson’s Paul
Challoner, head of network product
solutions in North America, told
RCR Wireless News in an interview.
“What DSS does is allows me to use
an existing LTE band to share that
band dynamically…to support them
both on that same band.”
He also pointed out that even if an
operator had an empty band, they’d
still have to add another radio or
add an additional channel on an
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5G users already experience dramatically higher real-world
max download speeds than 4G users in most countries
Image courtesy of Opensignal
existing radio. DSS lets operators available peak download speeds on
avoid those truck rolls and capex 4G networks.
with its software-based function- The U.S. led the pack, with users
ality. Challoner said there would be experiencing peak 5G download
“full software capability” for DSS speeds of 1.8 Gbps. In second place
by the end of the year. “We’re very was Switzerland, with 5G peak
excited about DSS and the capabili- speeds of 1.14 Gbps; the third-fastest
ties that it brings.” 5G peak speeds were found in South
Korea, clocking in at about 1 Gbps.
Comparing 5G in Switzerland OpenSignal relies on crowd-
to the rest of the world sourced, device-based data and
In an analysis from OpenSignal regular application servers for its
published in July, the company information on user-experienced
looked at device-based data from speeds, as opposed to test servers
eight countries and concluded that may be located within an oper-
that 5G speeds overall were “dra- ator’s network. Data was collected
matically higher” than currently between April 1 and June 30.
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“It’s unsurprising to see that the
current 5G maximum speed is so
much greater in the US, because
operators there are already able
to use mmWave spectrum for 5G,”
wrote Iain Fogg, who leads Open-
Signal’s data analysis team, in a
post on the new analysis. “This
is extremely high capacity and
extremely fast spectrum but has
very limited coverage compared
with the 3.4-3.8 GHz 5G ‘mid band’
spectrum typically used in most of
the other countries we analyzed
where mmWave spectrum is not
yet available.”
However, OpenSignal did point out
that as far as 5G goes, it is still early
days, and the company expects 5G
speeds to continue to get faster.
“This is just the start of the 5G era
and the market is moving quickly,”
Fogg wrote. “More 5G services will
launch using more spectrum and
wider channels — there are few 5G
services currently using 5G’s ide-
al 100 MHz channel size — and 5G
technology evolves to be able to
combine the performance of multi-
ple 5G channels and bands togeth-
er to boost both the maximum and
average 5G speeds and further im-
prove the mobile user experience of
5G users.”

A Q&A with Inseego
“5G is here now.”
Ashish Sharma, CMO and EVP of
IoT & Mobile Solutions, Inseego
Ashish Sharma, CMO and EVP of
IoT & Mobile Solutions at Inseego,
shared his perspective on 5G devel-
opment in Europe, including oppor-
tunities around consumer mobility,
fixed wireless access and private
networks for industrial enablement.
Q 
Can you give me a high-lev-
el overview of Inseego’s
consumer and enterprise business
in Europe today, and how you
expect it to change as European
carriers scale out 5G?
A 
 Inseego’s presence in Eu-
rope started as Novatel
Wireless in the 90s. We brought
the first 3G voice/broadband FWA
solution to Europe and introduced
the world’s first mobile hotspot
with Telefonica. Many other con-
nectivity solutions were distribut-
ed throughout Europe, including
our Skyus industrial IoT modems.
Today, nearly two decades later, we
are in 5G trials and tests with Tier
1 operators throughout Europe.
In addition, our well-established
Ctrack asset tracking and manage-
ment business serves SMBs and en-
terprises across a number of verti-
cals, including aviation throughout
the UK and Europe. This business
intelligence solution is device-to-
cloud. 5G has one key use case: data.
Before we know it, all data driven
to the cloud will depend on 5G due
to the dawn of massive IoT.
We are seeing significant oppor-
tunity in serving consumers and
enterprises with our cutting-edge
MiFi and FWA solutions, which is
especially attractive to cost-effec-
tively bring broadband to areas
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where fiber is not feasible, too
costly and time prohibitive, such
as rugged terrain, low population
density areas, rural areas etc. As
the race continues, operators in
Europe need products in order to
offer 5G services and Inseego has
proven, secure devices that enable
the business case.
Q 
 As more operators turn up
commercial 5G services,
what type of market variability
are you seeing?
A 
 There are a lot of common-
alities as well as regional
differences. The need for speeds,
capacity, and low-latency are uni-
versal. There is a lot of pent-up de-
mand for fixed wireless in the USA
because of cable monopoly. Europe
has a lot of fiber in most parts of its
urban landscape, so 5G will mostly
be used for mobile. Rural, rugged
and low population density areas
in both the US and Europe would be
ideal for the 5G based fixed wire-
less solution. In both the U.S. and
Europe, 5G provides an excellent
opportunity for the carriers to of-
fer bundled fixed and mobile ser-
vices using a common network.
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Q 
 What’s your perspective
on Europe’s mid-band first
approach vs. the US’s millimeter
wave first approach to commer-
cialization. What do you see as the
upsides and downsides of both ap-
proaches, particularly in terms of
scaling coverage and setting user
expectations?
A 
 No spectrum is bad spec-
trum. All have their pros
and cons. It is our belief that no
matter where the carriers start
from, millimeter wave and sub-6
GHz, they will end up using both
of them. Europe’s approach of
starting from sub-6GHz allows
them to offer very high speeds
and capacity on a wide area basis
compared to millimeter wave. So
they can offer 5G service in large
areas with fewer sites and more
cost-effectively. They can utilize
millimeter wave spectrum when
the traffic ramps up and need for
more spectrum arises.
Q 
 What opportunities do
you see around private
networks? It seems like the EU is
taking a much more systematic
approach to exploring 5G for au-
tomotive, manufacturing, ports,
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mining, etc…What does that mean
for Europe as a whole if they’re
able to quickly digitize their in-
dustrial base. And what does this
keen interest in private networks
mean for Inseego?
A 
 There is strong interest
across the board in private
networks. Europe is at the leading
edge of this development. Because
of their strong industrial base, Eu-
ropean players…are working more
diligently than others to bring the
private network from concept to
reality. Private networks is a large
opportunity, and because of our
early leadership in 5G, Inseego is
very well positioned to take ad-
vantage of it.
Q 
 Do you buy into the race
characterization of 5G? If
so, what position is Europe in and
what headwinds/tailwinds can
we expect?
A 
 Based on the market con-
ditions it seems like it is a
race. Last year there were roughly
70 operators that committed to a
5G strategy, today there are nearly
300 and the heat is on to kick off
trials and commercial launches
of any scale. The governments,
regulators and carriers across the
world are trying to position them-
selves as leaders and ahead of
everybody else. And this is good
for the entire industry and of
course for consumers and enter-
prises. The sooner they get access
to the extraordinary capabilities
that 5G brings the better it is for
them because new use cases and
therefore new revenue streams
open up. This being a global race,
it creates a large ecosystem which
means the economies of scale are
much better and the pace of inno-
vation is much faster than histori-
cal norms. So, everybody wins!
Conclusion
As Notwell explained, 5G lets car-
riers not only provide better, more
differentiated services but it also
significantly reduces the cost of
transmitting data through gains
in spectral and network efficien-
cy, which is paramount given data
consumption trends. “This is a tidal
wave that will happen,” he said. “We
ain’t going back.”
Editor’s note: Arden Media editors James Blackman
and Juan Pedro Tómas contributed to this report.
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