5G roll-out to begin nearly a year ahead of schedule

Rajeev Suri (CEO of Nokia) sees the distribution of 5G’s taking place a year ahead of schedule. On Sunday Chief Executive Rajeev Suri says that Major telecom operators are accelerating their timelines for adopting next-generation 5G networks by up to a year, boosting Nokia’s confidence.

First commercial of 5-G roll-outs are now due to begin this year and Suri said he expected large deployments in the United States, South Korea, Japan and China to take place sooner than what the industry could have expected a year ago. Nokia also hinted that it expected to announce some form of deal with Vodafone, but declined to elaborate.

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