Pearson shares his forecast for when standalone 5G will emerge and the potential barriers to commercial deployment.

Kelsey Ziser, Senior Editor

May 21, 2020

1 Min Read
Podcast: 5G Americas President Chris Pearson on momentum for standalone 5G

In this podcast, Phil Harvey and I are joined by Chris Pearson, president of 5G Americas. Pearson examines how COVID-19 is impacting the progress of 5G in North America, shares his predictions for the rate of deployment of standalone 5G and the potential impact of 5G on the IoT market.

While COVID-19 is certainly changing business as usual for many organizations, Pearson says the pandemic hasn't slowed down progress on service providers' momentum around 5G – on earnings calls, many have expressed their continued commitment to deploying 5G.

In addition, North America is a leader "in terms of deployments, subscriptions and capabilities of their 5G networks," says Pearson. "Right now, we're at 69 deployments worldwide and, by the end of the year, we still expect 200. Some regions have stated that they'll be a bit slower in terms of roll-outs, but the US isn't one of them."

Pearson also shares his forecast for when standalone 5G will emerge, the potential barriers to commercial deployment and discusses a variety of ways 5G will impact the IoT market.

Listen to the podcast below, or subscribe and download it from Google Play, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud or Spotify.

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Special thanks to Avast for being our podcast sponsor.

— Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Senior Editor, Light Reading

About the Author(s)

Kelsey Ziser

Senior Editor, Light Reading

Kelsey is a senior editor at Light Reading, co-host of the Light Reading podcast, and host of the "What's the story?" podcast.

Her interest in the telecom world started with a PR position at Connect2 Communications, which led to a communications role at the FREEDM Systems Center, a smart grid research lab at N.C. State University. There, she orchestrated their webinar program across college campuses and covered research projects such as the center's smart solid-state transformer.

Kelsey enjoys reading four (or 12) books at once, watching movies about space travel, crafting and (hoarding) houseplants.

Kelsey is based in Raleigh, N.C.

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