Telecom equipment manufacturer Ericsson says the first smartphones supporting 5G will become available during early 2019. The June Ericsson Mobility Report makes three major other assertions: 1) 5G will kick off with enhanced mobile broadband as its first use case. 2) By the end of 2023, there will be 1 billion 5G subscriptions, accounting for around 20% of mobile data traffic. 3) A massive increase in 5G subscriptions is expected to be fueled by third-generation chipsets, which will be available from 2020 on a variety of frequency bands
Enhanced mobile broadband and smartphones supporting 5G in the mid-bands expected in early 2019. The research firm SNS Telecom & IT said earlier this year that it expects private LTE and 5G networks to surpass $2.5 billion in annual spending by the end of 2018.
5G is expected have a major impact on transmission capacity also for radio and television. It is estimated that Netflix video is already occupying some 40% of global broadband capacity. However, for radio there is already ample space as an audio stream occupy approx. 40 times less space than a HD video stream online. In countries with almost complete coverage of 4G mobile broadband, as Finland, Norway and Sweden, there is already ample space for a multitude of broadcast radio channels. And consumer subscription costs for mobile broadband are already low and falling.
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SNS researchers expect private LTE to grow across the board in 2018 (FireceWireless)
Ericsson Mobililty Report (June 2018)
Mobile broadband future major platform for radio and tv
