There are around 45 commercial 5G Standalone deployments in the world right now, and there’s a perceived hesitancy among operators to make the move; this despite the pressing need for operators to realize new 5G service revenues. During the Telco Cloud & Edge Forum (on-demand here), we asked excerpts from Kore Wireless, Reliance Jio and Telenor why operators should make the jump to 5G Standalone, and how they should think about doing it.
Bottomline: 5G Standalone gives operators the technological abilities to support new monetizable use cases, but doing so requires focused development of those use cases, and concurrent development of a plan for selling them.