AT&T initially launched 5G companies in Mexico in December final yr utilizing spectrum within the 2.5 GHz band
Nokia and AT&T Mexico introduced that they’re collaborating to deliver the advantages of 5G know-how to the nation. The Finnish vendor mentioned that it was additionally chosen as a strategic accomplice for AT&T Mexico’s 5G Innovation Lab with the purpose of exploring the event of 5G use instances suited to Mexico. The venture is underway and anticipated to conclude later this yr.
The 5G Innovation Lab allows entrepreneurs, builders and customers to trial options to develop an area 5G ecosystem.
Beneath the deal, Nokia will present tools from its energy-efficient 5G AirScale RAN portfolio, powered by its newest ReefShark System-on-Chip chipset. Nokia may also present connectivity for 3G and 4G LTE companies utilizing the identical {hardware} whereas providing an improve path to 5G.
Nicole Rodriguez, CTO at AT&T Mexico, mentioned: “We’re dedicated to offering our prospects with the most effective expertise attainable. As we transfer ahead with the deployment of our 5G community, we want the newest know-how and essentially the most dependable help companies.”
“We’re excited to be a part of this necessary milestone as a strategic accomplice for AT&T Mexico. Our newest AirScale portfolio creates a powerful basis for the operator’s 5G evolution, enabling super-fast cell connectivity and progressive use instances for its prospects,” Tommi Uitto, president of Cell Networks at Nokia, mentioned.
In accordance with analysis by Nokia and evaluation agency Omdia, 5G know-how will allow $730 billion of social and financial output in Mexico by 2035, and ICT, manufacturing, companies, retail, actual property and development would be the industries most impacted by 5G.
The provider had initially launched 5G companies in Mexico in December final yr utilizing spectrum within the 2.5 GHz band, with preliminary protection restricted to the Cuauhtémoc and the Napoles districts in Mexico Metropolis. In Might, AT&T Mexico introduced its 5G community has been launched in Mexico Metropolis, Guadalajara and Monterrey. The telco mentioned it expects its 5G community infrastructure to succeed in 25 new cities throughout Mexico earlier than the top of 2022.
Earlier this yr, Mexican operator Movistar, owned by Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica, mentioned it was contemplating a launch of 5G in Mexico by way of a community sharing settlement with AT&T.
In the meantime, Mexican telecom group America Movil expects to double the variety of 5G websites in Mexico by the top of the yr, America Movil’s CEO Daniel Hajj beforehand mentioned throughout a convention name with buyers.
Hajj additionally mentioned that the telco will step by step improve its 5G capex as soon as customers migrate from 3G and 4G networks to 5G. “As we are able to transfer extra prospects from 4G to 5G or 3G to 5G then the capex must be extra in 5G as a result of now we have extra prospects there and take out some capex on 4G to place it in 5G (…) If we develop sooner, than we put extra on 5G, if we develop at slower tempo we’re going to put extra on 4G,” he added.
In February, America Movil launched 5G companies in 18 of Mexico’s largest cities, reaching greater than 48 million individuals.
The corporate, which operates within the cell telephony section by way of the Telcel model, initially launched 5G in Mexico Metropolis, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Tijuana and Puebla, amongst different cities.
Earlier this yr, Mexican telecommunications regulator IFT had confirmed that the 5G spectrum public sale for cell companies will happen throughout 2022.
