interview: Howard Watson, Chief Security and Network Officer, BT Group (It was photographed) suggested that there are signs of life in 5G use cases for money spinners, but acknowledged that this has taken longer to materialize than the industry had hoped.
Watson said this in a wide-ranging interview at MWC Barcelona 2024. mobile world live The company has seen “excellent uptake” of its 5G network from consumers, and said it is “starting to see some promising green shoots for enterprise use cases,” adding that the latter “hopefully will pay off.” “Tokoro,” he explained.
“I think the industry as a whole would say it was a little bit slower than we expected.”
The executive stressed that BT is preparing for a “very good” standalone 5G launch, expected later this year, which is likely to open up a range of new use cases.
Open RAN delay
Another highly touted architecture in the industry is open RAN. Watson believes this approach will start to become more widely used “towards the end of the decade.”
“We’re very active on that part,” he said. “We are part of his O-RAN Alliance, doing research and experimenting with his RIC part of it, but we don’t yet think this is an actual vehicle that will increase supplier diversity. yeah.”
He expressed confidence that open RAN “is definitely going to happen,” adding: “We’re probably more focused on the hot brief than the leading brief.”
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