“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” – Charles Dickens 5G promises a revolution! However, the shape of this 5G revolution, for Nokia and its CSP customers, is still to be defined. At this year’s Industry analyst event Nokia showed how it was adapting to this revolution (both good and bad). Nokia’s CEO Rajeev Suri, showed how Nokia was rising to the challenge of turning 5G hype/vision into a future success; whilst acknowledging the continued challenges in achieving this both technically and commercially. The overall event was characterised by two distinct 5G themes: 5G for the public operators remains focused at connectivity and 4G capacity upgrade The future of a lot of 5G will be private. CSP focused at connectivity: 4G+ growth and Fixed Wireless Access “5G is strapping on massive MIMO to existing 4G” Vodafone’s CTO Johan Wibergh summed up the reality of 5G for operators today. Operators are pursuing a 4G+ upgrade strategy for mobile broadband and they are using their existing suppliers to achieve this (because this is the only way to make sure key features like carrier aggregation work with 5G). Nokia’s Tommi Uitto, showed that the business case for 5G enhanced MBB was strong, […]