5G service revenues will reach $269 billion by 2025, increasing from $851 million in 2019 – achieving 161 percent CAGR over the first 7 years of 5G services.
Juniper Research has ranked SK Telekom as the No 1 for the extent of 5G trialling over the past 24 months in the fields of millimetre wave spectrum, MIMO (Massive Input, Massive Output) transmission and network splicing.
# SK Telekom
# NTT DOCOMO
# KT Corp
# China Mobile
# AT&T Mobility
Incidentally, American 5G telecoms such as Verizon and T-Mobile are not in the top 5 list.
The above chart is prepared by Ovum. According to Ovum, there will be 2.1 million 5G subscribers by 2020 and 25 million by 2021.
Juniper’s ranking process included analysis of time in development, breadth and value of partnerships and progression of 5G network testing.
66 percent of all 5G operator-billed revenues will come from North America and Far East & China by 2025.
5G spectrum auctions and infrastructure build-out costs would necessitate a range of strategies to maximise operator return on investment. This need is compounded by the ongoing fall of average revenues per connection. Adoption of software-based network solutions will lower investment costs, enabling operators to begin realising a return on investment as early as 2024.
“Network virtualisation will be increasingly prominent as operators aim to lower expenditures,” said research author Sam Barker, “Adoption of the technology is critical to the wide-ranging demands of future 5G networks.”
