China to spend $134-220 billion on 5G between 2020 and 2025

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China will spend between $134 billion and $220 billion on 5G infrastructure between 2020 and 2025 says the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).

electronicsweekly.com, Mar. 13, 2019 – 

This is roughly equivalent to the annual capex of all the world's telcos.

Globally operators spend about $150 billion a year on capex out of their collective revenues of $1.6 trillion.

The total global cost of installing 5G is estimated at $2.7 trillion and the cost of installing it in Europe is estimated at $568 billion.

The collective annual capex of European telcos is $47 billion and their collective annual revenues are $270 billion.

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