Spending on 5G to double despite the pandemic while legacy network infrastructure sector suffers – Gartner

Worldwide spending on 5G is set to double in 2020, according to analyst house Gartner, in stark contrast to the wider cellular infrastructure sector, which will see revenues plummet overall. Spending on 5G kit is expected to hit $8.12bn, up 96 per cent from 2019's $4.14bn. Meanwhile, infrastructure as a whole is set to decline …

[iron]

Except in the UK where we have to rip out most of our 5G in the next year.

[JetSetJim]

Yep, so that's twice the spending when they buy it again

[Jim Mitchell]

Aren't you also busy burning down the 4G towers as well?

[Anonymous Coward]

Making Britain Great again.

[Anonymous Coward]

And rural Openreach FTTC cabinets sweated to the max / operating at capacity.

Making 99% of gumpth the regulator Ofcom write on their website in terms of switching broadband utter bollocks, because the rules no longer apply and you can't place a (new) order or migrate to another supplier.

And all happening, penalty free, for Openreach.

Did this situation never cross the minds of anyone at Ofcom/Competition and Markets Authority/Parliament select committees? #Fuseless

[ThereBePirates]

Sadly - yes.

[Peter2]

Except in the UK where we have to rip out most of our 5G in the next year.

Except in the UK where companies will be banned from buying new Huawei kit by the end of this year, giving them five months notice to place orders for spares and to stock up on kit they need for new deployments which they are then allowed to keep in service until 2027?

[Boris the Cockroach]

I read

a NASA report that 5G is bad for us

So there you have it.. proof 5G is bad and should not be deployed

[Anonymous Coward]

Greater China leads the world in 5G development

With Huawei technology..

So the UK and US will fall behind.