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uplink into the network sending the content- which has been the biggest struggle. That is where 5G coupled with 4G will really improve the uplink. You can get quality video back and it’s not transcoded or changed, it remains raw. That is a fundamental shift. We will see mobile journalism taking off a little bit more. 3G to 4G solved the download of content for people. 5G will now really solve content uploading. And, if we use edge computing, that upload will reach the applications necessary to produce the content. Everything will be much faster than before and can be checked on the go. Obviously, there are different privacy rules that need to be included in that, but that can be done much quicker.
Finally, how has covid-19 affected the development of 5G networks? Let’s go back to customer behaviour. The covid-19 has fundamentally changed the behaviour of our lives. It has simply changed the way we live and work. Operators have worked very hard to provide more capacity, so most of the
effort has gone into redimensioning the network, so that people can work at home with the 4G devices they actually had. From a resource perspective, they haven't been as affected by covid. The operators have been day in and day out making sure that there is enough capacity in the right place, so that people can provide online education, online work and remote working. That will probably only have a three to six months impact on the actual 5G deployment schedules, because they understand the dynamics and that 5G is more important now because behaviours have changed. We now know that the requirements for uplinks that send video to the network are more important than anything else these days as the dynamics have changed. We're still forecasting that about 20 percent of connections will be 5G by 2025, which is huge growth compared to historical. We see the reduction of 2G and 3G connections, with 4G being the workhorse of the type of connections that we have. Anyway, we see 5G emerging very quickly over the next five years. ď ľ 35