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And then there were four: the Big Five mobile network vendors are reduced to a quartet, though Cisco will be hoping that its new alliance with Ericsson will admit it to the inner circle, while Samsung and NEC remain hopeful of harnessing virtualisation to improve their radio access network (RAN) business. But the fight is …

  1. Mage Silver badge

    5G

    I predict 5G will mostly be about management, seamless bonding of data channels that use different bands and maybe even 3G and 4G at the same time. Possibly even on Edge. Better integration with WiFi too.

    It won't be specifically about new spectrum (any generation can use any spectrum), or new air interfaces or any stuff like that.

    Existing recent basestations will work, maybe with a minimum of new controllers.

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