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.”



I realize that AI is a hot topic right now, so it’s maybe useful to reference it, but I feel like the links between cell network infrastructure and AI capability probably aren’t quite as tight as is being presented.
At least in telecommunications research at the moment everyone is trying to do stuff using AI/ML.