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Industry Outlook for January
NFWARE BLOG
04/02/2021
In this January outlook, we keep you updated about the most interesting news and insights in the telecom industry.
5G of the Month:
Telstra telecom announced that half of the population of Australia have access to its 5G network
Half of Australians could get Telstra 5G because it has coverage in more than 100 cities and towns, including major regional centres in every state. According to Telstra, they are growing by thousands of new devices per week and already reached 750,000 5G devices.
We've made great progress but there's still more work to do, which is why we've set our teams aggressive roll out targets to bring Telstra 5G to 75 per cent of the Australian population by the end of June this year, - said Telstra's Technology Development & Solutions Executive Channa Seneviratne, in a statement
China will reach full 5G coverage by 2025
China is planning to achieve full 5G network coverage in urban and rural areas by the end of 2025. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China has already build 718,000 5G base stations and they are planning to build more than 600,000 5G base stations in this year.
By the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), China will build the world's largest and most extensive stand-alone 5G network and achieve full network coverage in urban and rural areas, - said Wang Zhiqin, deputy head of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology
$81 billion was bid by companies for the airwaves to build 5G
This auctioning valuable airwave licenses can be used to build out faster and more powerful 5G networks. The winners are already known by not publicly announced. Soon will be the second phase where specific regions and blocks of spectrum will be distributed among winners.
Once these 5G networks deployed on this mid-band spectrum are rolled out, the performance jump is going to be so dramatic, that if carriers are not in that game they're going to get left behind, - said Doug Brake, broadband policy director at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Companies have bid $81 billion for the airwaves to build 5G, and winners will be revealed soon
IPv4 of the Month:
4.1 million IP addresses were stolen from Indigenous firms
African Network Information Centre, which is responsible for the allocation and management of IPv4 and IPv6 in African performed an audit and found out that over 4.1 million Internet Protocol (IP) addresses belonging to indigenous African companies had been stolen.
The analysis of the records related to these IPv4 addresses and correspondence with the resource-holders found that dormant resources (those resources not visible in routing tables) were mainly targeted; e-mail domains were also transferred as part of the 'sale' of IPv4 resources, thus rendering it almost impracticable to contact the initial source-holder, - the AFRINIC audit stated
NFV of the Month:
Brazil's TIM virtualized 60% of its main network functions
TIM Brazil not only virtualized 60% of its main network functions but also installed 41 network datacenters.
We surpassed our goals for 2020. The deployment pace is quite fast. But it's important to highlight that we are not building these datacenters just for the sake of it, but as part of our project of network functions virtualization, - said Di Costanzo
Four largest operators in Europe are planning to support and deploy OpenRAN solutions
Because OpenRAN is disrupting the current RAN vendor monopoly, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone are uniting to support the rollout of Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN). The main benefits of OpenRAN is not only cost reduction but also virtualization and automation and the opportunity to add the capacity more quickly for end-users.
OpenRAN is about network innovation, flexibility and faster rollout. Deutsche Telekom is committed to its promotion, development and adoption to ensure the best network experience for our customers. To seize this opportunity, it is critical that we join forces with our leading European partners to foster a diverse, competitive and secure 4G/5G ecosystem based on OpenRAN solutions, - said Claudia Nemat, Chief Technology Officer of Deutsche Telekom
Edge of the Month:
Verizon and Unity partner to enable 5G & MEC gaming
Verizon and Unity are partnering to enable new digital experiences ranging from entertainment applications to enterprise toolkits using 5G, mobile edge compute (MEC) and real-time 3D technology.
We are entering an era of technology-led disruption where 5G and MEC will not only transform the full enterprise lifecycle, it will change the way consumers experience gaming and entertainment, - said Tami Erwin, CEO of Verizon Business.
Telstra and AWS partners to collaborate on edge computing
Telstra and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will develop differentiated multi-access edge computing solutions to bolster its cloud services offering and delivering game-changing speed and flexibility.
Telstra and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will develop differentiated multi-access edge computing solutions to bolster its cloud services offering and delivering game-changing speed and flexibility.
Deployments of the Month:
Starlink satellite internet service has been approved in the UK
SpaceX's satellite broadband service Starlink is now being tested in the U.K. after it was given a license by U.K. telecoms regulator Ofcom.
Partnership of the Month:
Facebook is going to partner with mobile carriers and not to compete with them
Facebook is not planning to become a wireless operator, competing against service providers. The social media company is looking for partnership with companies in the telecommunications industry to provide internet to areas that are under-served or have no access.
I'm so happy to dispel this rumor, because it is, it is something that comes up very frequently. But the reality is we're really good at building networks for our own use, - said Rabinovitsj, vice president for connectivity.
