Speaking to Bloomberg News at MWC Barcelona, Ekholm compared Europe’s sluggish move to 5G unfavourably to China

“China has already built out a 5G standalone network,” he said.

“Europe has elected to be a museum,” he added. “That’s a choice European citizens have to live with.”

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    8 months ago

    EU badly needs data sovereignty and need to focus on securing the open source eco-system. They also need to crack down on gathering and sharing personal data. End the surveilance economy. It would not hurt to make mobile phone and data contracts cheaper and easier for consumers.

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    8 months ago

    Is there really a benefit to 5g for the average citizen? It seems to me that coverage is much more important and europe has that pretty well covered.

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    8 months ago

    Okay so what does this means for me as a consuner? In terms of mobile coverage and speed I am really satisfied since many years.

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      8 months ago

      Nothing. The rich fat bastard just wants some of that “line going up” which his US oligarch colleagues sees.