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Fernández Alvarado: "It is not clear how 5G will be financially leveraged"

The president of the Chamber of Telecommunications Cooperatives (Catel), Ariel Fernández Alvarado, said that the process of launching 5G in the country generates "more doubts than certainties" and that fifth generation "is more like a virtual network than one of those we currently know."

Fernández Alvarado, present at the ICT Policies and Regulation panel, focused on the effort that will be involved in financing the system "when thinking about infrastructure sharing, in all the assets needed to deploy the technology, knowing that it will be more demanding than 4G and that it is not clear how to leverage it financially."

And he added: "Today the mobile business does not seem to generate a flow that allows financing the deployment of 5G".

The president of Catel added that "thinking about 5G without thinking about SMEs and cooperatives is biased. If we want it to reach all corners, all medium and small companies are partners to make this assimilation possible in the locations where we provide service. We can play a leading role in 5G in the mobile world," he said.

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