5G also requires new kind of regulation internalizing content and pricing regulation.The US and other liberal democracies are falling behind China in the global 5G race. China is also expected to dominate through 2025, at which time it might represent 40 percent of global 5G connections, according to the GSMA. Mainland China is already the world's largest Smartphone market, and it also boasts the largest 4G market, with 843.7 million 4G subscribers. Regarding status of deployment of 5G in India, 5G High Level Forum has given its report titled Making India 5G Ready'to the Government in August, 2018. One of Huawei's own executives went so far as to call China's 5G "fake, dumb and poor," mostly due to poor integration with the 4G network.

Source: Economic Times May 06, 2021 07:18 UTC