Huawei's first 5G phone on sale, global investment of 5G is enhancing in fileds of various industries

5G-capable smartphone on sale in China over the weekend as the technology giant pushes ahead with new products despite pressure from the U.S.

5G prefers to the next generation of mobile networks that promise super-fast data speeds and the ability to upderpin technologies like driverless cars. 

After Huawei's new smartphone launch in China, so many phone manufactuers has launched their 5G smartphones and will invest more cost to 5G research and development. Gartner said the 5G network infrastructure market will increase from an estimated $2.2 billion of revenue in 2019 to $4.2 billion, a rise of 89 percent in only 12 months. 

In 2020, worldwide 5G wireless network infrastructure revenue will reach $4.2 billion (€3.8bn), an 89 per cent increase from 2019 revenue of $2.2 billion, according to research and advisory company Gartner.

Additionally, Gartner forecasts that investments in 5G NR network infrastructure will account for 6 per cent of the total wireless infrastructure revenue of communications service providers (CSPs) in 2019, and that this figure will reach 12 per cent in 2020.  

5G Rollout Will Accelerate Through 2020

5G services will launch in many major cities in 2019 and 2020. Services have already begun in the US, South Korea and some European countries, including Switzerland, Finland and the UK. CSPs in Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Spain, Sweden, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have announced plans to accelerate 5G network building through 2020.

As a result, Gartner estimates that 7 per cent of CSPs worldwide have already deployed 5G infrastructure in their networks.

Wireless Infrastructure Revenue Forecast, Worldwide, 2018-2021 ($m) 

What does 5G technology mean for AI?

Fifth generation wireless (5G) and artificial intelligence (AI) are probably bound to generate a mutually beneficial relationship that could skyrocket both these technologies to a new level. 5G is, in fact a tremendously complex technology, characterized by an inherently chaotic structure.

How to efficiently distribute cell sites or fully leverage the benefits of massive MIMO sites are just some of the challenges faced by operators. Maintenance and site planning operations are significantly more complicated and AI may represent the perfect answer.

AI algorithms that can analyze cross-domain and multidimensional data, allowing for precise 5G network planning, smart MIMO, and dynamic optimization of cloud network resources and coverage. AI can bring the order needed by the chaos of 5G networks, making them work more smoothly and efficiently.

And that's probably the reason why more than 50% of operators expect to adopt AI in their 5G networks by 2020. 

AI, on the other hand, must be fed with massive amount of data to work properly. Right now, our current infrastructure is failing to provide the machines with the information needed to grow them to their full potential. The 5G technology is a huge step forward. It works with virtually no processing delays and can reach an operational speed that is nearly 100 times quicker than fourth generation wireless (4G.)

It is a technology that will connect every device we can possibly imagine, from smartphones to home appliances, autonomous vehicles, and sensors.

Experts claim it will consume a fraction of the batteries drained by 4G, reducing energy waste by a substantial amount. This speed and efficiency is the foundation of the new smart megacities, meaning that not only data will be much more abundant, but it will also be more diversified since it will be drawn from a lot of additional sources.

All the data generated by 5G can finally represent the “food” that our AI toddlers need to become fully-grown adults.

However, this relationship is not devoid of risks. Many think that the sheer amount of data that 5G may provide to AI could be obtained with no respect for privacy. What already happened in the past when massive amounts of personal data was maliciously extracted from social media by unscrupulous organizations, may occur again at a much larger scale with the 5G/AI coupling.

New laws to avoid this from happening are an absolute necessity, but they must be established and enforced before this technology goes live.