Frédérique Liaigre, who leads Verizon’s business operations in France and other European countries, shares the Ericsson executive’s enthusiasm, saying that the potential of 5G has “no limit“.
While Verizon was one of the first to deploy 5G to its customers in the United States, Ms. Liaigre admits that the commercial strategy is just getting started with projects in the pipeline like providing a private 5G network to the port of Southampton in Britain to improve its security and supply chain management. “The transformative capabilities of this technology are truly amazing“, she said.
After a first launch of 5G antennas from 4G infrastructures (known as “non stand alone“) in 2020, the second phase of 5G deployments by operators should allow the network to deliver its full potential once they are on a 100% 5G network infrastructure (say “stand alone“) in the course of the year 2023.