LTE's functionality will stretch into the middle of next decade, some of Europe’s leading CTOs have said, as operators juggle new functionality with the advent of 5G.

The UK is set to be Vodafone’s testing ground for Massive MIMO as the operator launches it for the first time in the country and Europe as a whole.

ETSI has singled out mmwave as the joker in the pack of 5G, with trials involving the technology surprising even seasoned industry veterans.

With the first 5G networks less than two years away, debate continues to rage about the exact nature of the technology and what it should and should not do.

A senior Deutsche Telekom executive has claimed that the forthcoming 3GPP Release 16 was “make or break for 5G”, as he urged the industry to make 5G standards more innovative in its approach.

Telecoms' biggest vendors were in the firing line at 5G World, with a senior Deutsche Telekom executive accusing them of hindering innovation and calling for "radical change" in the infrastructure model.

BT expects a “horses for courses” approach to IoT connectivity with the operator opting for LoRa, NB-IoT and LTE-M in its smart city deployments and lab research.

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Operators need to embrace software, transformational leadership strategies and financial skillsets to respond to the changing telecoms landscape, VEON's Chief Technology Officer has said.

Operators need help from governments and regulators to build a truly supportive climate to back the spending required for 5G networks, the CTO of Proximus has claimed.

A spectrum cap would enable a "truly competitive" market in the UK, the CTO of Three UK has claimed.

Orange will be focused on getting 5G right, not getting out first with 5G, its SVP for Orange Labs Networks has said.

Operators will fail to take advantage of 5G's promise if they treat it like an incremental progression of cellular technology, the Group CTO of Deutsche Telekom has claimed.

Healthcare is routinely listed among the major industries that will be transformed by 5G, but scepticism abides among the health sector about whether it will happen in practice.