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| 27 | Baker: A look at the progress of 5G rollouts across Europe (簡訳:ベイカー：ヨーロッパ全体での5G展開の進捗状況を見てみましょう) | ----------- | |
| FierceWireless: Wireless | 2020-12-02 00:30 | ????0? | |
| Britain made an early start, with operator EE the first network to launch in May last year, with rivals Vodafone following in July and O2 in October. Most major UK towns are now covered. In Spain, Vodafone also launched in June last year, with Telefonica following suit this September. In Italy, both Vodafone and TIM had 5G networks in commercial operation in June 2019.One the fastest rollouts in Europe is taking place in Denmark, where Danish operator TDC NET launched 5G this September with an immediate coverage of 80% of the population, with another 10% of the population expected to be covered by the end of the year. In Holland, another small and compact country, 5G got going in April this year and already four-fifths of the population is covered. European frequency allocations to date have centered on sub-6GHz. The relatively small coverage areas of these cells means that service is focused on city centers and built-up areas. Initial deployments are often dependent on limited frequency allocations, and in several countries, such as Germany, operators are using dynamic frequency sharing with 4G networks. Millimeter wave will largely come later. There has already been some release of lower 700MHz band, and more is likely to follow.The European Roundtable of Industrialists is very critical of the pace of deployment across Europe, pointing out in a report published in mid-September that so far the installation rate is only 10 per 1 million inhabitants, against 1,500 per 1 million in South Korea, and that the proportion of 4G antennas in Europe converted to 5G was just 1%. While the list of deployments given here may sound impressive, full national coverage may take time. For instance in Italy, off the mark already in 2019, TIM is not expecting to provide the whole country with 5G connectivity for another five years.It is also well behind the take off curve of 4G in Europe in its initial quarters in 2012. While Europe’s remaining telecom infrastructure players Nokia and Ericsson may get a new lease on life through the freezing out of Huawei in many markets, on the smartphone side, Europe is pretty much out of the game. In 2012 Finland’s Nokia was still a major global brand in phones. Today its share is small, and other European names have gone. Only 3.5 million 5G smartphones were sold in Europe in the third quarter, according to IDC data. Whether that tempo accelerates in 2021 will depend heavily on the marketing and pricing decisions of America`s Apple, Korea`s Samsung and a grouping of Chinese Android phone makers. -- ???????? | |||
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