Internet Communication

• [New] The emerging satellite broadband service is poised to play a significant role in providing service in rural US areas alongside opportunities in the much larger global market.
• [New] Demand for private LTE/5G networks will grow over the next five years but enterprise spend on private LTE/5G networks will build slowly because there are important challenges to address.
• [New] As global service providers enter a new decade, a new network evolution (from 4G to 5G), and a new IT cycle, they have been forced to take a hard look at their business models and opportunities for growth.
• [New] Verizon plans to cover more than 100 million people with its mid-band 5G service by the end of the year and over 250 million after 2024.
• [New] Over 6 million 5G cells will be deployed by 2027 to smart factories, fulfillment centers and other enterprise, industrial and public zones to provide localized connectivity solutions.
• [New] Verizon secured an average of 161 MHz of C-band spectrum nationwide in the recent FCC auction, which will allow Verizon to offer increased mobility and broadband services to millions more consumers and businesses.
• [New] Unsecured networks like public Wi-Fi could enable man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks designed to compromise devices and data.
• [New] The Wi-Fi Alliance, which sets standards for and certifies Wi-Fi 6 products, anticipates close to 2 billion Wi-Fi 6 devices to be shipped in 2021 to consumers and organizations.
• [New] OneWeb plans to have 648 satellites at 1,200 km in orbit in line with its goal to provide a global broadband service.
• [New] Assuming that Australia chooses not to use Huawei's 5G network infrastructure for security reasons and that China imports Australian products, China will still remain better off importing from Australia, even if it loses it Huawei market in Australia.
• [New] T-Mobile will bring its award-winning mobile phone service and newly launched T-Mobile Home Internet service to 100 households and give them free service for a year.
• [New] Honda and Verizon are researching how 5G and mobile edge computing might improve safety for today's connected vehicles and the future's autonomous ones.
• [New] Future 6G technologies will provide faster data speed, lower latency and higher reliability than 5G, and will be able to bring the concept of Ambient Internet of Everything, which provides enhanced connected experience to users.
• [New] Private 5G networks are expected to unlock the full potential of smart factories around the world-helping to reduce emissions, improve production, and reduce defects and downtime.
• [New] Telcos are expected to implement a wide array of measures in 2021 to secure the next wave of 5G connectivity.
• [New] The cumulative goal of ESF's work on 5G is to jointly improve the ability of the 5G infrastructure to identify and build threat models, detect threats in networks, recover from attacks, and securely leverage the benefits of virtualization.
• [New] Ericsson network automation solutions will improve network efficiency, performance, customer experience and enable new revenue streams for new 5G use cases.
• [New] Ericsson Digital Services offers a cloud native dual-mode 5G Core solution for smarter networks to drive smarter business, allowing communications service providers to offer a multitude of new business opportunities for mobile users and industries.
• Samsung is expected to launch a lot of 5G smartphones in India in 2021, despite the country not having any 5G network.
• Telcos will implement a wide array of measures in 2021 to secure the next wave of 5G connectivity.

Last updated: 18 April 2021