5G Infrastructure Costs: What Telcos Are Paying | PatentPC
Setting up a 5G base station is expensive, with costs ranging from $100,000 to $200,000 per site. This price includes hardware, installation, site rental, and maintenance.
Setting up a 5G base station is expensive, with costs ranging from $100,000 to $200,000 per site. This price includes hardware, installation, site rental, and maintenance. Urban areas often have higher costs due to land prices and infrastructure challenges.
Based on the data on the graphs, according to GSMA calculations, it would be necessary to spend about $290 million to cover Moscow with a 5G network in the 3.5 GHz range until 2030, and in the 4.8 GHz range this amount grows to about $530 million. Key slide from the GSMA study.
And according to Russian working solutions, there are only prototypes and trial versions of base stations such as LTE-Advanced, they noted. Instances for 5G networks that were created by Rostec did not appeal to operators.
The total budget required for the deployment of 5G in Russia by the end of 2024 is 208 billion rubles. The commercial launch of 5G networks in Russia is scheduled for 2022-2023, according to the official website of the mayor of Moscow.
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