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Ericsson Mobility Report Business Review edition: The road from opportunity to revenue
In this new report, we have analyzed several current trends within our industry and explored ways in which service providers are turning 5G opportunities into revenues. We can see early indications of revenue growth in advanced 5G markets with extensive coverage buildout and differentiated service offerings.
The report shares key insights into consumer and enterprise market segments. 5G opportunities covered for the consumer business range from fixed wireless access to cloud gaming, and for the enterprise business we elaborate on private networks, Wireless WAN and API exposure in 5G networks.
Key findings from the report
• 5G is driving service provider revenue growth in the 20 top markets. These areas have shown a significant, consistent boost in performance following the introduction of 5G.
• Fixed wireless access (FWA) represents a big opportunity for regional carriers to help connect rural communities.
• Service provider revenues from FWA worldwide are projected to grow by a CAGR of 16 percent between 2022 and 2028, to USD 67 billion.
• There are clear 5G opportunities in the USD 2.4 billion cloud gaming market.
• Connectivity is the starting point for all enterprise services as new opportunities within private networks, wireless wide area network (WWAN) and communications platform as a service (CPaaS) emerge.
• For mobile service packaging, speed tiers represent a step toward a quality- and valueoriented pricing focus.
• Based on 4G experience, it is likely that user devices with new form factors supporting 5G will soon start to appear at scale, making it possible for service providers to monetize 5G in new ways.
• Harmonizing the exposure of APIs in 5G networks together with other service providers will attract developers to innovate at scale.
• Using a network operator as a managed service provider (MSP) is rapidly becoming the desired networking business model for enterprises that want to streamline their IT operations.
