Mobile networks are an essential part of our everyday lives. They increase our working productivity, represent a central means of social interchange for our friends and family,assist in the management of our homes and businesses, enable financial transactions,and even facilitate how we manage our healthcare.
The global impact of 4G brought about increases in mobile usage and network performance. 5G will build on this momentum,bringing substantial network improvements, including higher connection speeds, mobility and capacity, as well as low-latency capabilities. In doing so, it enables new use cases and applications that will positively impact different industry sectors.
Spectrum plays a critical role in realising the full extent of these new capabilities. Thus, 5G’s full socio-economic impact is dependent on access to a variety of spectrum resources, including millimetre wave (mmWave) bands between 24 GHz and 86 GHz. The mmWave spectrum allows for the increases in bandwidth and capacity that numerous 5G applications require. It will play a key role in meeting the demand for many enhanced mobile data services as well as new wireless broadband use cases such as remote object manipulation, industrial automation, virtual and augmented reality and next-generation connectivity for vehicles. These use cases will continue to increase the impact that mobile services have on societies and economies.
While the socio-economic benefits of mobile services and broadband connectivity have been studied for some time, quantifying the impact of high-capacity mmWave spectrum represents a new opportunity. To date, some of the mmWave bands have been made available for mobile services in some countries. Bands between 24 and 86 GHz are also under evaluation and will be considered for identification for International Mobile Telecommunications at the ITU World Radiocommunication Conference in 2019 (WRC-19) in order to support 5G network development. The lengthy process to move spectrum from WRC agenda item to the day it is actually assigned underscores the need for all administrations to consider 5G spectrum needs now, especially in mmWave bands.
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This emphasises the importance of a mmWave specific analysis, supporting the timely actions that administrations should take in order to realise the many opportunities afforded by 5G in the future. As such, this study leverages the wide variety of research done to date on the expected benefits of mobile broadband, the implementation of 5G and the role of mmWave in that implementation. This is done to forecast the contribution to gross domestic product and tax revenue that is expected by making mmWave bands available for the deployment of 5G applications.
Date: December 19, 2018
Source: GSMA
