5G Revenue Forecast to Surpass $65 Billion by 2025

Revenues for 5G services will exceed $65 billion by 2025, according to a forecast from Juniper Research. That would be up from a forecast $100 billion in 2020, the year the first commercial 5G roll-outs are expected. Surpassing $65 billion by 2025 would mean global 5G service revenue would account for 7 percent of operator-billed services overall, Juniper points out in a press release. According to Juniper’s “5G Market Strategies: 4G LTE Evolution, Spectrum Analysis & Opportunities 2015-2025,¨ 5G services will be widespread from 2025 onward. Regulators will allocate 5G spectrum over a period of years, as has been the case with 4G. A minimum $25 billion will be invested in 5G technology research, development and trials over the next five years, Juniper estimates. The number of active 4G LTE connections will exceed 3 billion globally by 2020.