Ministry of communications allocates among the most promising applications of 5G unmanned vehicles, telemedicine including remote surgery, as well as the creation of information infrastructure for industry, energy and utilities (IoT).
“In Russia, unfortunately, the situation with the 5G headway, says Telecom expert Alex Boyko. – If in New Zealand the epidemic decided to abandon the frequency auction and just distribute the operators of the strip in the “Golden range” of 3.5 GHz, we have the fate of this band is still in limbo. For civil operators to worthy of attention frequency bands in this range (60 MHz to the operator) is currently not possible.”
“And to build a network in the range of 28 GHz much more expensive than 3.5 GHz, range SOT – tens of meters. So even cities not covered if the resources are not limited. But Russian operators are not able to spend as much as, for example, us, because cellular communication in Russia is much cheaper than, for example, in the United States,” continued Boyko.
the Ministry of communications until reviewing the plans for the development of 5G: it is planned that by 2024, the communication network of the fifth generation will be introduced in all Russian cities with population over 1 million people, including using domestic equipment, planned activities to ensure the availability of radio frequencies for 5G communication networks in these cities for the operators, said “the Russian newspaper” in the Ministry.
In the “Beeline” say they are ready to launch 5G in Moscow in the shortest possible time, but it is necessary to solve the problem with the frequencies. “We are still working on testing the 5G to the current restrictions, noted in the company. – Like last year, our focus is on creating case studies of the application of 5G and an assessment of the economic effects of the introduction of technology in various industries. Taking into account the significant increase in the load on the existing network, expansion of capacity of networks are getting more serious. And the solution to this question lies in the allocation operators new frequency resource with a well-developed ecosystem of devices.”
sticking to the same position in MTS, noting that the future development of 5G in Russia are dependent on the sufficiency of the required frequency resources and joint work between regulators and operators in this direction. “At the moment we are testing the technology in a variety of formats in the existing pilot areas”, – said the representative of the company.
If in Russia have not yet determined the frequency at which the work will be 5G, abroad, other problems. In the UK, residents of several cities of Albion set fire to a cell tower, citing the fact that the 5G brings bole��and is one of the vectors COVID-19. This fake was so widespread among the British that social networks create a whole group to support this “theory”. According to the BBC, local providers are turning to the British request to stop to burn the mobile towers, and the Minister of health of great Britain called the theory “nonsense”. But the process has gone so far that attempts by the UK government to deal with the fake yet fail.
“To such “conspiracy theories” appeared less often, it is necessary to increase public awareness and to educate, – noted in the press-service of “Beeline”. – We are working on this via our social network, composed of relevant experts and cooperate with the authorities on this issue. For example, with DIT of Moscow.
“In countries where the networks of the fifth generation were deployed, and only began to unfold, the pandemic has contributed to the development of technologies, as there is a need for greater use of networks with greater performance, – says Dmitry Konarev, chief expert on wireless technologies of Huawei in Russia. – There are new examples of the use of 5G technologies for medical purposes. In countries where only expected to start rolling out networks, the process stopped. For example, in some countries, auctions of frequencies for 5G networks was postponed to a later date, respectively, and networks deployment will be delayed”.
Artyom Geniev, business architect-solutions, VMware in Russia and CIS, believes that in the current year the dynamics of deployment of fifth generation networks will slow down considerably and Renaissance should be expected only next year: “as the recovery of economic growth will be new opportunities for the positioning of services based on the 5G, especially if you start the repatriation of production capacity from China. It is therefore possible that mid-2021, the active deployment of 5G networks by the operators to resume”.
