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5G core: Exploring CSP approaches

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5G Core (5GC) networks are now coming online in live CSP networks and their functions are entirely software-based and cloud-native. 5G core networks form the heart of a standalone 5G ecosystem when they are connected to 5G RAN and SDN transport domains within a modernized IT environment.

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China Mobile customizes AN Methodology to slash 5G OpEx

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Who: China Mobile and Huawei. What: Developed implementation architecture and level-based evaluation system to transform network Operation & Maintenance across its 31 subsidiaries. If deployment of 5G can be considered a race, then China Mobile is arguably at the front of the pack. The scale of the challenge.

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What are the emerging B2B hotspots for telcos?

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Yet no killer B2B application has emerged to give CSPs immediate and sustained business growth. As such, many of the technologies that CSPs are now deploying for 5G era operations are part of the effort to broaden reach or are being packaged up and sold as a service to boost the IT-centric capabilities of B2B offerings.

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DTW 2022: Jio unveils platforms for B2B verticals - and global service providers

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Jio Platforms gave details of its platform architecture, designed to drive growth in vertical enterprise markets at home – and to other service providers globally - during DTW 2022 in Copenhagen. In six years Jio has grown from scratch to become India’s largest mobile operator in terms of market share with 421 million subscribers.

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2030 Vision: How the telco industry’s past successes will shape its future

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Over time, however, new entrants and high mobile subscriber penetration led to the start of B2C saturation. Takeaway: Telcos were creative and launched new digital services off the back of a better network. But with mobile data and B2C facing commoditization, telcos need to explore new opportunities. will come from B2B.

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5G investment choices point to industry challenges

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New figures from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) show relatively few communications service providers (CSPs) are investing in 5G standalone (SA) compared to 5G overall. Nonetheless, collectively they constitute a group of opportunities that warrant the move to 5G SA for CSPs hungry to chase B2B and B2B2X growth markets.

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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

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5G network investments have essentially amounted to the largest round of spending the industry has ever gone through, which currently only brings us to the non-standalone version of the wireless technology. The majority of network sharing for 5G to date is happening in radio access networks (RANs).

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