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Setting the Scene for 5G

Opportunities and Challenges

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This report sets out the landscape for ICT policy-makers, national regulatory authorities (NRAs) and operators as the expectation of 5G technologies to transform citizens, businesses, governments and economies becomes a reality.This report highlights 16 key issues – and responses – for policy-makers to consider as they formulate strategies to stimulate investment in 5G networks. Together they represent powerful means of calibrating an overall approach across major aspects of migration and, where appropriate, embarking on a judiciously facilitated, accelerated transition to 5G.

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Example of costs and investment implications

The deployment of small cells in dense urban areas is likely to represent a key investment for mobile operators in the run up to 5G. This section develops an example of a high-level cost model to estimate the potential investment required by a wireless operator to deploy a 5G-ready small cell network.

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