The Netradar Team had the privilege to participate to MWC 2022 in Barcelona. 1133 exhibitors compared to 2500 of three years ago.
The only big company that cancelled its participation was Sony Corp. while many companies including us were really looking forward to meeting both existing customers and new prospects finally, live, face-to-face after COVID closure with great enthusiasm.
The most common themes among operators were sustainability, open RAN (open radio access network), increasing role of Private Mobile Networks and network slicing.
Key findings from two recent surveys by the Economist and Capgemini show that 51% of companies plan to deploy a private 5G network within the next 6–24 months and 80% of surveyed executives agree that COVID-19 has made it easier to secure the budget needed for 5G.
As integration with legacy systems and infrastructure complexity are the key barriers for implementing 5G, a solution that can show how wireless network end-users perceive the network service is essential. Furthermore 35% of industrial organizations prefer to deploy fully private 5G networks.
Furthermore, the number of meetings we had, clearly shows how important network analytics is to mobile operators and ISPs. We had several unscheduled meetings where the service provider had looked us up beforehand and came to our meeting room with clear idea how our Netradar wireless network analytics solution can help them.
One of the highlights was definitely the visit of Timo Harakka, Transport and Communications Minister of Finland together with Sari Rautio, Ambassador of Finland in Spain.
Looking forward to continuing the great discussions we had at #MWC2022.
Don’t forget to email jukka.hieta@netradar.com if you want to talk about our solution for mobile performance network monitoring.
