Stefan Mileschin

Lagging behind

Huawei plans to make CPE ((customer premises equipment) infrastructure devices in the first half of 2019 but it looks like 5G for phones won’t happen before 2H 2019.

According to a few people close to the matter, Qualcomm might come up with commercial 5G NR devices as soon as the first half of 2019. Test devices might show before the end of this year as numerous carriers across the globe are set to start 5G NR trials before the end of 2018.
5G NR commercial start in 1H 2019

Never underestimate the power of a new technology transition. We have been preaching a lot about how 5G is destined to change our lives completely once again. It will bring the next level of innovation and it will come with super-fast, low latency speeds that will enable a lot of business to be able to cut the ethernet cords.



Early adopters are preparing for massive launches in early 2019 and we believe that Samsung might be one of the leading ones. At the same time, Qualcomm locked in what Fudzilla calls the big six players in China - Lenovo, OPPO, vivo, Xiaomi, ZTE and Wingtech for its 5G NR smartphone solution.

Huawei already shared with the analyst community a few weeks back that the official plan is to have the smartphone 5G NR solution in the second half of 2019 and this is unlikely to change.

Huawei on the infrastructure end does have the antennas ready for 5G NR and has started a trial in Berlin using the 3.7 GHz spectrum band.

https://fudzilla.com/news/mobile/463...phone-in-2h-19