
The inability of Chinese vendors to scale their offerings in the current environment has been a major limiting factor, notes Yugal Joshi, vice president of digital, cloud, and application services research for Everest Group. “As Chinese vendors were pivotal to these deployments to build cost-effective 5G solution, it is a big problem,” Yoshi says. “Moreover, in many countries the license cost of 5G bandwidth is prohibitive, requiring governments and telecom vendors to come together, which is not easy.”