{"id":8471,"date":"2020-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/the-5g-sector-in-catalonia-is-expanding-steadily\/"},"modified":"2020-07-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T22:00:00","slug":"the-5g-sector-in-catalonia-is-expanding-steadily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/ca\/the-5g-sector-in-catalonia-is-expanding-steadily\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5G sector in Catalonia is expanding steadily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4nvb2\" data-offset-key=\"uvq5-0-0\">\n<p class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"uvq5-0-0\"><strong>The development of Catalan companies dedicated to 5G grows a 73 %<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-offset-key=\"uvq5-0-0\"><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"2qt7e-0-0\">The enterprises dedicated to the 5G sector in Catalonia have grown 73% in less than a year. <span class=\"veryhardreadability\">It is one of the conclusions of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accio.gencat.cat\/ca\/serveis\/banc-coneixement\/cercador\/BancConeixement\/5G-a-catalunya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The 5G in Catalonia<\/a><span class=\"veryhardreadability\">, a report elaborated by ACCI\u00d3 &#8211; the agency for the competitivity of the company of Ministry of Business and Knowledge &#8211; and the Ministry for Public Administration and Digital Policy<\/span>.The Catalan ecosystem of the 5G includes Universities and Research Centres, like the UPC, the i2CAT Foundation, or the CTTC<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"2qt7e-1-0\">. <\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"2qt7e-2-0\">Institutions and associations like Mobile World Capital, GSMA, and 5G Barcelona are also part of it<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"2qt7e-3-0\">. <\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"2qt7e-4-0\">Catalonia is one of the pioneers&#8217; regions impulsing research projects and pilot tests, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/5gmed-the-future-of-mobility-in-the-mediterranean-cross-border-corridor\/?lang=ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5GMED Corridor,<\/a> with the <\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"2qt7e-5-0\"><strong>i2CAT Foundation being its Technical Manager.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"bsb78-0-0\"><span class=\"veryhardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"bsb78-0-0\">Even being an emergent technology, with only 38 companies that work in the sector, it has an important turnover and handles, at least, 150 job positions<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"bsb78-1-0\">. Focusing on numbers, 55% are SMEs. <\/span><span class=\"veryhardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"bsb78-2-0\">63% of the companies are solutions developers, 16% manufacturing of equipment, 13% network providers, and 8% integrators of this technology<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"bsb78-3-0\">. <\/span><span class=\"veryhardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"bsb78-4-0\">About the applications, the 5G <\/span><\/span><span class=\"passivevoice\"><span data-offset-key=\"bsb78-5-0\">is used<\/span><\/span><span class=\"veryhardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"bsb78-6-0\"> in Industry, Infrastructure, Transport, Mobility, Communications, Health, and Tourism<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"bsb78-7-0\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"2isv6-0-0\"><strong>A growing sector<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"3q1iq-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3q1iq-0-0\">According to the report, 5G technologies will be of paramount importance. <\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"3q1iq-1-0\">They will allow obtaining stable and safe connections, low latency, and help in the development of other technologies, like the IoT<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"3q1iq-2-0\">. <\/span><span class=\"veryhardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"3q1iq-3-0\">It is foreseen that the sectors where 5G will have a bigger economic impact are: energy, manufacturing, security, health, and transport<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"3q1iq-4-0\">. One example of this impact is the <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"3q1iq-5-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/seat-telefonica-i2cat-mwcapital-ficosa-and-etra-will-show-several-connected-car-use-cases-in-a-real-city-environment-to-enhance-mobility-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">connected car<\/a>, which the Foundation <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"3q1iq-5-0\">supported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"3q1iq-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3q1iq-5-0\"><strong>The Catalan 5G strategy<\/strong><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"84kj1-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"bncmo-0-0\"><span class=\"veryhardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"bncmo-0-0\">The 5G implantation in Catalonia is a Government&#8217;s priority, which wants to support the unfolding of this technology and transform Catalonia in a reference in this technology<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"bncmo-1-0\">. For this reason, in 2019 emerged the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/catalangovernment.eu\/catalangovernment\/news\/334602\/government-approves-catalonias-5g-strategy-to-lead-global-digital-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-offset-key=\"bncmo-2-0\">Catalan 5G Strategy<\/span><\/a><span data-offset-key=\"bncmo-2-0\">. <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"bncmo-2-0\">It is contemplated <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"bncmo-3-0\">around five concepts: promotion, infrastructure, innovation, ecosystem, and talent.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4nvb2\" data-offset-key=\"ebu8l-0-0\">\n<p class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"ebu8l-0-0\"><span class=\"veryhardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"ebu8l-0-0\">One month ago, the European Commission gave green light to the <\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"ebu8l-1-0\">5GMED Project<\/span><span class=\"veryhardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"ebu8l-2-0\">, which allows testing the autonomous and connected car in the border section of the AP7<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"ebu8l-3-0\">. <\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"ebu8l-4-0\">It is one of the pilot programs selected by Brussels to develop 5G technology in road and railway long-distance transport<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"ebu8l-5-0\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of Catalan companies dedicated to 5G grows a 73 % The enterprises dedicated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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