...James Meese; Kieran Hegarty; Rowan Wilken; Fan Yang; Catherine Middleton Purpose As part of the 5G rollout, small cell base stations will be deployed across cities. This paper aims to identify an international effort to remove regulatory barriers around deployment and outline emerging strategies...

...Kriti Priya Gupta Purpose This study aims to understand the challenges of 5G deployment in India from the perspectives of telecom operators. These challenges are also mapped to different contexts within the technological-organizational-environmental (TOE) framework. Design/methodology/approach...

...Zoltán Pápai; Aliz McLean; Péter Nagy; Gábor Szabó; Gergely Csorba Purpose The paper aims to discuss the expected changes 5G will bring to the assessment of active mobile network sharing agreements from a competition policy point of view. Design/methodology/approach The paper distinguishes...

...Paolo Gerli Purpose Several sources have reported an increase in the opposition to the fifth-generation (5G) amongst local communities following the outbreak of Covid-19. In Italy, more than 300 municipalities banned 5G rollout from their territory between April and June 2020. Researchers have...

... alternative VNCs. The paper studies the Aalto University campus network for current end-user data usage demand and the existing technology used in meeting the end-user needs and forecasts the demand for the next five years to understand the need for 5G. Findings This research concludes...

... of contradictory regulatory goals that are expected to arise during the near-future rollout of 5G in the USA. This will be done via traditional legal research combined with a critical policy focus. Particular attention will be given to the public interest remedies that have been established for companies that have...

...Juan Rendon Schneir; Konstantinos Konstantinou; Julie Bradford; Gerd Zimmermann; Heinz Droste; Rafael Canto Palancar; Ade Ajibulu Purpose 5G systems will enable an improved transmission performance and the delivery of advanced communication services. To meet the expected requirements, operators...

...Simon Forge; Colin Blackman Purpose Proponents of 5G predict a huge market for 5G goods and services with millions of new jobs being created. The purpose of this paper is to make a realistic assessment of the 5G initiative, with a focus on Europe. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews...