How Finland is trying to compete with China and the US in the race for 5G

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Telia has already worked with Nokia to test 5G in limited environments across Finland. Koistinen said Finland's legacy in wireless technologies, combined with support from the Finnish government, puts it in the running to compete with bigger countries on 5G initiatives.
Asked whether Finland can keep up with the U.S. and China, the two countries duking it out for dominance in the 5G market, Koistinen replied, "in the agility, in the speed, in the finding new ways of how to utilize this technology, for sure we will."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/21/5g-r...hoo&yptr=yahoo

As Chinese companies are out of the race because security issues, I've understood that 5G in US is actually being built as a 2-way game between Ericsson and Nokia (Nokia being the only one offering top to bottom solutions). So I didn't really get how USA is in the 5G race, other than companies from here are building 5G in there.

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US companies need to show this technology at work somewhere in Europe,also.

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AT&T Ericssons first 5G tests were apparently bit of a pancake

AT&T's First 5G Speed Tests Look Uninspiring

AT&T's Netgear Nighthawk 5G hotspot, the first consumer mobile 5G device, has been on the market for about a week now, but it's hard to find any evidence that anyone's using it. One post on Reddit shows a Speedtest result of 194.88Mbps down - impressive, until you see that the Redditor got 187.44Mbps on AT&T's 4G network in the same location.

That said, we haven't found any evidence that the customers are actually out there in any noticeable number. AT&T's 5G launch appears to mostly be a paper launch, so the company can say it "launched" in 2018.

https://uk.pcmag.com/news/118929/att...ok-uninspiring

T-Mobiles CTO Neville Ray made little fun of it in Twitter

@ATT calling their LTE network “5G” is about the same as @SpaceX tossing a paper airplane and calling it a rocket launch 🤦♂️

Any ideas what they’ll come up with next? #Fake5G
https://twitter.com/NevilleRay/statu...75388598263808

Meanwhile T-Mobile Nokia network speedtests were big success

So proud of my team! Along with @Nokia, we just pushed LTE speeds to almost 1.9Gbps using 7 carrier aggregation with LAA! #WeWontStop supercharging America’s fastest LTE network as we lay the groundwork for nationwide 5G!
https://twitter.com/NevilleRay/statu...15649745981442

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US companies need to show this technology at work somewhere in Europe,also.

Wut?