5G Fixed Wireless Access-Mobile Operator Perspective

Nowadays the demand of capacity, performance and reliability for telecommunications services is increasing a lot. The telecom operators are facing with the increasing traffic demand, new solutions in their network to accommodate the growth must be found. One solution could be the use of 5G Fixed Wireless Access to deliver to the customers a fast and affordable broadband service with a very high performance, more capacity for data traffic, greater download speeds and low latency. In this paper we will provide an overview of such a FWA solution; main advantages, technical characteristics, used spectrum, high level depiction of such system. For the creation of this we've analyzed existing studies and trials that have been performed on this solution, around the globe. Our interest in this solution is high mainly as we see this as an opportunity to achieve convergence fixed mobile in an easier way and secondly as this summer we will be part of the first multi-vendor 5G fixed wireless access customer trial in Europe, here in Romania. Orange Romania will collaborate with Orange Group, Samsung Electronics and Cisco on this 5G millimeter wave trial. The trial will be in the second half of 2018, across multiple homes in Romania.