FWA, enterprise 5G monetisation opportunities for telcos, says Qualcomm's Savi Soin
monetisation opportunities for operators such as Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio as they complete one year of service launch this month, said Qualcomm India president Savi Soin.
He told ET that the first year of 5G has been a great success, with prices of smartphones coming down and operators rolling out networks at a fast pace.
“It’s a great success. The original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and operators are bringing new use cases.
We have launched the fixed wireless and Airfibre, devices prices are coming down,” said Soin.
Asked about monetisation, the newly appointed head of the US-based chipset firm said with the work that Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are doing with Airfibre or fixed wireless access, there would be monetisation as this could lead to other content revenue for the telecom operators and other companies. Besides, there would be enterprise 5G and automotive, he said.
“Monetisation will depend on the business model deployed by the telcos.
Like, for private 5G, what business model can be deployed? Will they just sell connectivity, or will they bring service as a model, or do they manage the network, etc?” Soin said.
The 5G rollout strategies of Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have been different. While the former is rolling out the network on a standalone (SA) basis, the latter is doing it on the non-standalone (NSA) mode.
In SA mode, the whole network is rolled out afresh while in NSA, the 4G network layer is also utilised. From a consumer perspective, though, it does not make any difference, Soin said, but in enterprise 5G, there can be an advantage.
“Monetisation will depend on the business model and not by SA or NSA mode,” he said.
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