The number of 5G subscriptions continues to grow beyond 1.6 billion worldwide. Expanding capacity to provide sufficient performance under ever-increasing traffic, 5G will provide the high reliability and low latency required by different service levels for consumers and industries. In order to realize this further value, 5G will evolve into a programmable network.

On the other hand, discussions on Beyond 5G have begun in parallel with the evolution of 5G. As it is a social infrastructure that realizes immersive communications and digitalization of industry and society, various factors, such as privacy, security, sensing, AI, computing, diversification and versatility of devices will be involved in this discussion, in addition to the sophistication of existing network indicators.

This lecture will introduce Ericsson's vision of the way to realize the value of 5G, and the world that Beyond 5G is aiming for.