The Challenge of Making 5G ProfitablePosted by rojarani on November 4th, 2019 The 5G is on everyone’s lips and is getting closer to becoming a reality and transporting us to a new scenario in which, thanks to the new technology, we will live with autonomous cars; a surgeon can operate on appendicitis miles away; Downloading a movie will be a matter of 3.7 seconds or the Internet of Things (IoT) will give us a theoretically more comfortable world. This is how the operators sell it to us, which do not yet know well how to benefit economically from the great investment effort underway. That is your challenge for the next few years i.e, making 5G profitable. What figures are we talking about? It is estimated that the telecom will spend 5,000 million euros on the frequencies and deployment of Spanish 5G Network, but the truth is that the actual bill is an unknown. “It is difficult to specify a figure since this launch is the result of many years of work and, of course, a large number of investments in innovation and infrastructure deployment have been necessary. It’s somewhat difficult to making 5G profitable. To this we must add strong sums in equipment, radio and all the services developed on the Network, ”admits Julia Velasco, network director of Vodafone Spain, who recalls that the company has been the first to launch commercial 5G in the country. Like it? Share it! |