Report Finds ‘Severe Discord’ Between 5G ‘Hype’ and Deployment ‘Readiness’
There’s “severe discord” between 5G “market hype” and industry’s “readiness to deploy the technology,” ABI Research said in a Wednesday report. The company canvassed 455 U.S.-based companies in nine businesses, and found 62 percent have no plans to deploy 5G…
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in the foreseeable future, it said. Of those that do have 5G plans, nearly all said they're only in the “early investigation phase,” it said. “The hype of 5G is currently driven by the technology supply chain rather than by demand from the end-markets,” the company said. “All indicators lead us to believe that 5G will take hold in the consumer market before it claims its stake in the enterprise and industrial sectors.” The survey found the retail industry has “the most aggressive outlook in its willingness to adopt 5G technology,” with slightly more than half of retail respondents saying they're “assessing or planning to deploy 5G in the coming years,” it said. This suggests the retail industry “has a specific need for 5G to support bandwidth-hungry and low- latency use cases,” including virtual-reality and robotic applications, it said. “Conversely, autonomous driving is the most hyped use case in the 5G technology supply chain,” it said. “The misalignment between demand and supply planning clearly indicates that 5G technology vendors need to better communicate with implementers to ensure that well-informed decisions are being made to ultimately fulfill long-term customer requirements.”