Newsletter 26 – July August 2022

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5G subscriptions should overtake the 1 billion cap by year-end 2022*

European COREnect publishes roadmap towards leadership in 6G chips
The COREnect project has delivered a high-level strategic roadmap with recommendations to help Europe reach leadership in chips for digital connectivity infrastructures, one of the main objectives of the proposed European Chips Act. The roadmap outlines strategic actions in three focus areas: Compute & Store, Connect & Communicate, and Sense & Power.

The digital transformation of industry creates massive demand for digital components. Communications, including mobile handsets and network infrastructure, represent about 31% of the global demand for semiconductors and the trend is growing. The domain of electronics components and chipsets for telecommunications is attracting very strong industrial and political interest, especially in areas where data, microelectronics, and connectivity meet. Europe has a leading position in the global connectivity infrastructure market, while at the same time has strong dependencies on chipset vendors from outside the European Union.

The European Chips act sets the target for Europe to reach 20% of the global market share of chips production in 2030 with a specific focus on the current low market share of 4% in chips for telecoms. The COREnect roadmap is based on an in-depth analysis of this challenge considering strategic trends and potential business opportunities in the areas of future connectivity and microelectronics. Conclusions cover a range of short, medium, and long-term key strategic actions to address the challenges and opportunities across the 3 focus areas.

The full roadmap is available on the COREnect website. As a first result the relevant industry associations of the two Joint Undertakings (6GIA and AENEAS) have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (add link to press release) to jointly address these common challenges.

State of Art and perspectives on Digital Decade Policy Programme
On 14 July 2022, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the 2030 Policy Programme: Path to the Digital Decade. The programme sets up a monitoring and cooperation mechanism to achieve the common objectives and targets for Europe’s digital transformation set out in the 2030 Digital Compass. This concerns the area of skills and infrastructure, including connectivity, the digitalisation of businesses and online public services as well as the respect of the EU’s Digital rights and principles in achieving the general objectives.

To effectively monitor progress, the Commission, together with the Member States, will develop projected EU-level trajectories for each target. In turn, the Member States shall propose national strategic roadmaps, outlining their national projected trajectories and actions to achieve the objectives and targets, including planned regulatory measures and investments.

Progress will be measured with key performance indicators (KPIs) based on an enhanced Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), and evaluated against the developed trajectories in an annual report on the “State of the Digital Decade” that will be presented to the European Parliament and Council. To give a comprehensive overview and analysis of the digital transformation, the report will also review progress made with regard to the Digital Decade targets, objectives, as well as rights and principles.

Member States and the Commission will cooperate to address areas where progress is insufficient and where there are continuous deviations from national trajectories. At any point, the Commission and Member States may undertake joint commitments and establish multi-country projects to meet the 2030 digital targets.

The Commission shall review the targets by 2026 to take stock of technological, economic, and societal developments.

Large-scale projects are critical for achieving the digital targets and delivering the digital transformation by 2030. Through multi-country projects, Member States can pool resources and cooperate closely to build digital capacities that they would struggle to deliver on their own. The Commission has identified an initial list of areas for investment for multi-country projects, including common data infrastructure, deployment of 5G corridors, connected public administration, high-performance computing, European Blockchain Services Infrastructure, and low-power processors, for example. The policy programme creates a new legal instrument, the European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC). The EDIC will help in the implementation of multi-country projects and make it easier for Member States to join efforts when they invest in digital infrastructures.

The political agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council is now subject to formal approval by the two co-legislators.

As a first step following the entry into force of the policy programme, the Commission together with the Member States will develop KPIs to measure progress towards the 2030 digital targets in preparation of the first annual report on the “State of the Digital Decade” to be adopted possibly already in June 2023. The KPIs will be enshrined in an implementing act. Within nine months, the Member States shall present their first national strategic roadmaps, which will launch the cooperation cycle.

5G status*
The 5G wave is taking shape at world level. Adoption continues to grow at a rapid pace in advanced markets and consumer interest increases as coverage is expanding and the range of compatible smartphones is widening. Some markets have seen rapid adoption. Some players have launched plans with attractive pricing. Other players have promoted plans with added value (content, quality of service, higher speeds). Subscriber uptake is particularly impressive in China and in South Korea. These two countries are expected to have reached 12%+ 5G penetration (5G subscriptions/population) respectively by the end of December 2021, thanks to subsidised smartphones and/or cheap pricing plans. Subscriber numbers in other countries remain rather low. MNOs are now focusing on improving 5G coverage: in 10+ countries, population is covered by 5G at 80%.

In Europe, 30 countries enjoy commercial 5G services. 5G is live in every EU-27 Member States as well as in Norway, Switzerland, and the UK. In Russia where the ministry decided to reallocate 26 GHz spectrum from existing radio relay station usage to 5G access networks, three players (MegaFon, MTS and Tele2 Russia) plan 5G launch by 2023. MNOs are mainly focusing on improving 5G coverage outside very dense areas. National governments are more and more keen to provide additional funding for 5G.

  • The 700 MHz band has been assigned in twenty-two European countries including Norway, Switzerland, and the UK.
  • Spectrum within 3.4-3.8 GHz frequency band has already been assigned in accordance with 5G technical conditions in 23 countries (20 EU-27 countries and Norway, Switzerland, and the UK). Estonia, Netherlands, Romania and Poland plan to assign 3.5 GHz spectrum by year-end 2023.
  • Spectrum within 26 GHz frequencies has already been assigned in six Member States and six European countries (EU-countries and Norway, Switzerland): Croatia (October 2021), Denmark (April 2021), Italy (October 2018), Finland (June 2020), Greece (December 2020) and Slovenia (April 2021). In the UK and Germany, local licences are available on demand. Some Member States rescheduled 26 GHz auctions later in 2022 (Spain, Sweden) and in 2023 (Austria).

Almost 65% of the population is covered by 5G in EU-27 with approx. 150,000 base stations.

Major US and Canadian mobile network operators launched 5G commercial services months ago. The US players were among the first to launch 5G services on mmWave frequencies. 5G is now expanding in South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, and Uruguay). Auctions in Brazil, Chile and the Dominican Republic led to new 5G roll-outs in 2022. More auctions are expected in the region (Canada mid-band and mmWave), Mexico (mid-band).

Asia-Pacific shows wide disparities in terms of 5G deployment. It enjoys various quality 5G experiences, particularly in mature markets like South Korea and Taiwan while 5G has not yet been launched in many less-advanced markets. It will account for the lion’s share of 5G subscriptions between 2020 and 2027. The volume effect of China and India will push Asia-Pacific 5G subscriptions to exceed the 1 billion mark sometimes in 2023. Chinese players make up the top3 in subscriber numbers with 207,000 5G subscriptions for China Mobile at year-end 2021 using the 5G network (387,000 5G subscriptions in total).  Those numbers reflect in base stations numbers: at year-end 2021, China totalled 1,430 million 5G-enabled base stations all over the country.

The world-first single wholesale model 5G network was launched in March 2022 in Malaysia.  The government aims at having a state-owned 5G network with 40% reach in densely populated areas by year-end 2022 and 80% by 2024.

In India, 5G could be launched very soon. 5G multi-band spectrum auctions took place in July and ended on August 1, 2022, after seven days of bidding and over 40 rounds. Official results have yet to be announced. 51.2 GHz of spectrum (out of 72 GHz on sale) was sold at more than 17.7 billion EUR (17,743.3 million EUR) reaching unprecedented levels.

  • Reliance Jio was the largest spender with twice as much spent than its biggest competitor Bharti. It paid globally 10,400 million EUR paid for 24,740 MHz of spectrum including 220 MHz (10 MHz by circle) of expensive and previously unsold 700 MHz spectrum (unsold in 2016 and 2021 auctions), 2,400 MHz of 3,300 MHz spectrum (100 or 130 MHz by circle) and 22,000 MHz of 26 GHz spectrum (1,000 MHz in the 22 circles).
  • Bharti bought 19,867 MHz of spectrum which comprises a large part of 26 GHz spectrum (2,200 MHz @ 3300 MHz, 17,600 MHz @ 26 GHz and 67.5 MHz @ 900/1800/2100 MHz) and paid globally more than 5,090.5 million EUR. For 19,800 MHz of 3,300 MHz and 26 GHz spectrum, it paid 4,405 million EUR, broken down into 3,745 million EUR for 2,200 MHz of 3,330 MHz spectrum and 660.7 million EUR for 17,600 MHz of 26 GHz spectrum.
*IDATE SAS forecasts

 

Call for Demos

Electra Hotel Athens, Greece – September 5-8

IEEE MeditCom 2022 Demo track provides a space for researchers and practitioners to bring hands-on experiences to conference attendees. They should focus on:

  • Functional prototypes of devices and systems
  • Mobile and wearable applications and services
  • New interaction techniques
  • Innovative examples of mobile experiences
  • Toolkits and prototyping techniques for mobile and wearable interfaces

A best demo award will be discerned to recompense the best idea and demonstration.

Demo submissions should be made via EDAS by following this link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29854&track=112241

Important Dates

  • Three-page demo descriptions: 30 June 2022 (Extended)

Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2022 (Extended)

NGMN Exhibition and Conference

Pavillon d’Armenonville, Paris, France – September 7-9

The NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibition is a highly recognized bi-annual global industry event, where CTO/CTIOs & other top management level participants share their perspectives on today’s and tomorrow´s opportunities and challenges and the future of mobile communication. It is a great networking platform and first IC&E since 2018, providing a great opportunity to re-connect again in person.

Expect a great line-up of speakers, exhibitors, and a packed agenda around our strategic focus topics

  • Mastering the Route to Disaggregation
  • Green Future Networks
  • 6G

with a particular focus on Green Future Networks.

The NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibition offers unique networking opportunities with world’s top leaders from operators, telco & IT vendors, academia. At the Exhibition our international industry Partners demonstrate state of the art concepts and solutions.

For more information and registration please visit: https://ice2022.ngmn.org/

CELTIC-NEXT Proposers Day

Online – September 7

CELTIC-NEXT organises a Proposers day to foster new project ideas for the upcoming CELTIC-NEXT Autumn Call is planned as an online workshop on the 7th September.  The aim of this Proposers Day is for you to learn about CELTIC, discuss project ideas with potential partners and to find out about the funding opportunities in your countries. You can present your proposal idea(s) or simply listen to the other ideas being presented as you wish.

For full information please go to https://www.celticnext.eu/event/next-proposers-day-autumn-call-2022/

5G-MOBIX final event

CTAG, Spain – September 13-14

The project will hold their final event on 13-14 September 2022 in CTAG, Porriño / International Bridge Tui-Valença (Spain-Portugal). Join us to learn all about the trials outcome, tested solutions and experiences gained from all Trial Sites and cross-border corridors. Participants will also enjoy live demonstrations, including across the border between Spain and Portugal.

The first day will have a more technical focus and will provide the opportunity to interact with the project experts on the detailed outcomes of the trials.

The second day will target the press, public and high-level stakeholders.

Save the date and stay tuned for further details regarding the programme and registration (which will be posted here).

Download the final event here.

6G Global Summit

Online – September 15-16

The online 6G Global Summit will bring together top-level industry and policy representatives from across the globe and provide a platform to help enable the co-ordination and collaboration that is required as stakeholders in different regions start to explore the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead.

The event will take place virtually, for more information on the agenda, speakers and to register for your free place, please visit www.global6gsummit.com.

Themes to be discussed include:

 

  • Lessons from the ‘G’ revolution
  • 6G use cases and technologies
  • R&D and standards – avoiding fragmentation
  • Challenges, drivers and enabling technologies
  • New spectrum bands and licensing models
  • 6G and key societal goals

 9th Global Event

Tokyo, Japan – September 20-21

The Global 5G Event is a unique series of summits organized by the world’s leading 5G organizations committed to bringing 5G technology successfully to their country or region. It has been developed in the framework of a multilateral Memorandum of Understanding in the interest of building global consensus on 5G and achieving efficiencies in the roll-out of 5G technology between 6G-IA (EU), 5G Americas, 5G Forum (Korea), 5G MF (Japan), 5G Brasil, IMT-2020 (China) and TSDSI (India).

Open Living Lab Days 2022

Turin, Italy – September 20-23

ENoLL supported by the City of Turin, the House of Emerging Technologies and CTE NEXT organises the Open Living Lab Days 2022 – “The city as a Lab, but now for real! Re-working open innovation environments for inclusive, green, and digital transition through emerging technologies” on September 20-23 in Turin (Italy). 

About 400 innovators from Europe and around the world are expected for this annual Living Lab event. The event program he re.

The event is really a great international showcase, and for this reason, please consider reserving a booth. This way you will surely can exchange ideas and insights with professionals, international researchers, representatives of the European Union, city institutions and MISE. The booths can be of two sizes with different prices. You can find the details here.

For any information about the event, tickets and registration please visit the official website which is constantly being updated.

Workshop on 6G KPI and how to measure them
September 28 @09:00-12:00

Workshop description

The 5G PPP Test Measurement and KPI Validation work group (TMV WG) invites you to join a workshop to reflect on 6G KPIs and how to measure them.

Before EUCNC, the 5G PPP TMV released a white paper on “Beyond 5G/6G KPIs and Target Values”  based on input from 5G PPP ICT-52-2020 (ICT-52) projects. In this paper, KPIs from the ICT-52 projects were collected, described, and related to existing 5G KPIs. Where available, the target values for 6G were provided.

In the paper, the KPIs were clustered in KPI families based on type and the area that the KPI concerns. As most of the ICT-52 projects were in an early stage at the time of the paper creation, some of the KPI definitions and the target values and measurement techniques were often not fully defined.

The target of this workshop is to discuss the KPI definitions and which measurement techniques exist to monitor them. The workshops also intend to identify potential support for the ICT-52 projects. The workshop will also be the kick-off of the next iteration of the white paper on “Beyond 5G/6G KPIs and Target Values” where the aim is to further refine target values and the measurement techniques, again based on input from the ICT-52 projects and the 5GPPP TMV working group.

We invite all participants to inform us if they would like to contribute to the workshop by September 9th.

Agenda (preliminary):

  • Introduction and overview of current paper (20 min)
  • Input per project: Most important KPI and how the project intends to measure them (tools & techniques – focus on single KPI and challenges to measure) [10 min per project]
  • Presentations by workshop participants on B5G and 6G measurement techniques (requiring contribution registration by the 9th of September)
  • Outlook and next steps: White paper v2

Register online.

CfP Smart5Grid@IEEE International Smart Cities Conference

Paphos, Cyprus – September 26-29

Smart5Grid Project organises a Special Session on 5G for Smart Cities and Smart Grids and calls for Papers.

Paper submission deadline: 1st July 2022

See more details here.

 

AIOTI Signature Event: Societal Impact and Opportunities for the Green Digital Twin Transition

Brussels, Belgium  – September 27 @08:00-17:00 CEST

The Green Deal wants to decouple economic growth from resource use by 2050 and transform ‘linear’ take-make-discard industrial value chains into virtuous models that design waste and pollution out of the process, keeping products and materials in use for longer and helping to regenerate ecosystems.

At this event, we will explore how digital solutions enable sustainability gains? Are they contributing to the EU’s green growth now? And what more can be done to stimulate green growth through digitisation? How can IoT and Edge computing contribute achieving to Green Deal and digital twin transition objectives?

For more details, please visit the event webpage: https://aioti.eu/aioti-signature-event-2022/. The event will take place in the Thon Hotel Bristol Stephanie, Avenue Louise 91/93, 1050 Brussels.

European Research and Innovation Days 2022
online – September 28-29 @09:00-18:00

European Research and Innovation Days is the European Commission’s annual flagship Research and Innovation event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and the public to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond.

The event will take place online on 28 and 29 September 2022, allowing everyone to get involved from anywhere.

You can explore the programme here and register there.

5G-LOGINNOV and ALICE Collaboration Innovation Day
online – October 4 @09:00-13:00

The 5G-LOGINNOV and ALICE Collaborative Innovation Day that will be held as virtual event on 4th October 2022: the event aims at showcasing how 5G is revolutionising the logistics sector in Europe and at deepening how 5G and the green and digital transition represent a “game-changer” for the creation of market opportunities for new emerging actors.

Two interactive workshops will close the event where stakeholders, policymakers, Europe-wide industry associations and other experts will discuss about “Emerging 5G business opportunities and models” and get acquainted with Athens Living Lab and the operation of the developed 5G systems and services.

ETSI IoT Week
Sophia-Antipolis, France – October 10-14 @9:00-17:00 CEST

The ETSI IoT Week (www.etsi.org/IoTweek) will take place physically on 10-14 October 2022 in ETSI’s Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, South of France.

This gathering of IoT experts has become a must-attend event for anyone involved in IoT and who understands the importance of standard-enabled technologies for IoT service deployments.

This event is free of charge and open to all upon registration.

Do not miss this opportunity to network again with your fellow professionals and register now!

CfP Next Generation networking and Internet @ The 5G IEEE Future Networks World Forum

Brussels, Belgium  – October 12-15 @08:00-17:00 CEST

Papers are called for “Next Generation networking and Internet” @ The 5G IEEE Future Networks World Forum

  • Paper Submission: 15 June 2022 (Extended)
  • Notification: 30 July 2022
  • Camera Ready and Registration: 30 August 2022

More details here.

8th IEEE World Forum IoT – ASSIST-IoT CfP

Yokohama, Japan  – October 26-November 11

ASSIST-IoT will be at the 8th IEEE World Forum IoT and calls for papers for its Special Session entitled “Future Platforms for Edge-Cloud Continuum–Theoretical Foundations and Practical Considerations”. Call for papers is open. Deadline 13 June 2022. Contributions addressing theoretical and practical aspects of the following topics are invited (this list is, obviously, not exhaustive). See here for more details.

IEEE Global Communication Conference: Accelerating the Digital Transformation through Smart Communications

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  –  December 4-8

The 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 4 to 8 December 2022. Themed “Accelerating the Digital Transformation through Smart Communications,” this flagship hybrid (both in-person and online) conference of the IEEE Communications Society will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including 13 symposia and a variety of tutorials and workshops.

IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 will also include an attractive Industry program, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry and government leaders, business and industry panels, and vendor exhibits.

“Native NI – The 1st International Workshop on Native Network Intelligence”

Roma, Italy – December 9

The “NativeNI – The 1st International Workshop on Native Network Intelligence” is co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2022, held in Rome, Italy on December 9, 2022.

This workshop aims to bringing together researchers from academia and industry who are committed to making AI in networks a reality. We call for contributions from researchers working in the areas of network systems, applied machine learning and data science. We seek contributions that range from visionary position papers to promising ideas and prototypes, all the way to fully deployed solutions. All submissions should contribute to the common goal of making AI a viable and native technology for mobile networks.

Please see the workshop website at https://nativeni.github.io/  for full information.

WONS 2023

Madonna di Campiglio, Italy – January 30-Feb. 2n, 2023

The 18th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS) 2023 will be held on 30th January – 1st February 2023 in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy.

This announcement solicits original contributions of high-quality research providing novel insights on all aspects of wireless on-demand networks and systems. See more details here.

Important dates

  • Paper registration: 30 Sept. 2022
  • Paper submission: 7 Oct. 2022
  • Acceptance notification: 30 Nov. 2022
  • Camera ready: 16 Dec. 2022

The editor of the 5G PPP newsletter on behalf of the 6GStart Project is Carole Manero, IDATE, 601 rue Georges Méliès, 34000 Montpellier, France.
This document reflects only the views of its authors.