Path Taken by China Will Affect Adoption of Standards for 5G, Verizon Executive Says
A key to when mobile 5G will launch is when standards are approved and whether China decides to opt in to the standards that will be used in the rest of the world, said Ronan Dunne, group president of Verizon…
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Wireless, at the Oppenheimer financial conference Wednesday. The second big factor is the release of a wide number of devices, he said. Verizon intends to lead the way, he said: “We’ll be first. We have been in every generation of technology.” When a company goes first, it influences how “the industry sets up,” he said. “You help to define the rules by which industry plays.” Verizon has pre-commercial 5G trials in eight of the 11 markets where it plans tests, Dunne said. “We’re focused on the fixed-wireless opportunity,” he said. “What we’re looking for in the trials is just what the practical propagation experience is, the experience of self-install, do you need antenna rather than on the window on the inside?” Later in the year “we’ll have a lot more insight,” he said. The download speeds have been “very good,” but “what we need to understand is all of the conditions” like what effect trees have or what happens when a UPS van pulls up and blocks an antenna, Dunne said. Verizon’s buys of XO Holdings and Straight Path will give the carrier a very strong position in the 28 and 39 GHz bands, he said. Verizon is very interested in the unlicensed part of the 3.5 GHz band, he said. Rollout takes time, he said. Dunne said more than 90 percent of its data traffic now is on Verizon’s LTE network, versus only about 55 percent of voice traffic. “Voice over LTE came a little later,” he said.