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TÉRAL
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JIRBANDEY
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KOXLIEN
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DIBATTISTA
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CORRIDON
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HEDBERG
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SJOUWERMAN
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COLWELL
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RUFFIN
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15 Ask the Telecom Pro: Are fixed fee rates or discounts better for telecom carrier services?
21 Viking Electronics Introduces the K-1900-8-IP, a Heavy Duty VoIP Panel Phone
“Real” 5G Is Far Off; Service Providers Struggling to Find Compelling Use Cases
TÉRAL
by Stéphane Téral, senior research director, mobile infrastructure and carrier economics, IHS Markit (www.ihs.com)
The 5G race is on and raging. e very rst discussions about 5G started in 2012, and in 2013 NTT DoCoMo garnered attention by seriously discussing the possibility of rolling out 5G in time for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
Soon a er, South Korea set the target for pre-commercial 5G showcasing commercial pre- standard evolutionary 5G—in reality, something like a 4.5G—for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018. Since then, major 5G R&D developments have happened in China, Europe, Japan and South Korea, fueling the hype to a level never seen for 3G and 4G. And nally, Verizon caught the mobile industry o guard last year at
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Next Tech Revolution?
JIRBANDEY
by Amir Jirbandey, Head of Marketing at Dubber (www. dubber.net)
Since the rst mobile generation was released in 1982, a new generation of mobile has followed approximately every
decade, the most recent being 4G in 2012. As soon as the dust settled on the release of 4G however, talk became focused on the next generation. Only 3 years later, 5G is among
the hottest topics in the industry. With Telstra recently completing successful trials in Australia, expectations for the capabilities of 5G are high. Set to become available to the public in 2020, the potential of 5G is drawing closer - and it is not just telcos who are excited.
THE POSSIBILITIES
e 5G upgrade will be achieved in one of two ways: either as a complete redesign of the radio spectrum that previous generations have built
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