Nitin Bansal, MD, Ericsson India
“We see active discussion is taking place on what will 5G do. So we have been part of all the four continents where 5G has been launched, more than three fourths of the networks are supplied by Ericsson. What we see is that enhanced mobile broadband and fixed wireless access are the key enablers for 5G technology. Why do I say that? I say that because the way the data explosion is happening and the use of data that is expected going forward, there is the need to enable a cost efficient way to deliver cost regime at a reasonable price. In India we should be extremely proud that as part of our last mobility report that we brought up, Indian subscribers are consuming the highest data per subscriber per month per client per day. This is supposed to be and is expected to double in the next five years. Also looking at the total data we carried in the networks, we expect that this will quadruple by 2020. That is the total amount gigabytes that can be produced and consumed by the networks. We also expect LTE to remain as the dominant technology in the next five years. We expect about 80-83% of subscribers still using LTE, which means that it will exist together with 5G and it will maintain cost efficiency, especially in the metropolitan areas.”
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