A new study by Nokia and Telefonica has found that 5G networks are up to 90% more energy efficient per traffic unit than legacy 4G networks. The research, which was conducted over a three-month period, focused on the power consumption of the Radio Access Network (RAN) in Telefonica’s network.
It has almost been seven years, since a top executive at Deutsche Telekom talked about how the telecoms industry needed to embrace “brutal automation” to innovate and succeed. His words certainly triggered a big debate about how far communication service providers should transform their business models. But have they really heeded his warning? “Should the telecoms industry wholly automate itself?“
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