Reports and Studies about 5G

On 24 April 2019, the European Commission (DG CNECT) met with high-level representatives from 26 EU Member States to discuss the authorisation processes under way in relation to 5G spectrum bands and their relevance for timely and widespread 5G deployment.

The eighth meeting of the Horizon 2020 Future Internet Forum (FIF) took place in Vienna on 3 December 2018. The FIF meeting was held in conjunction with the event “ICT 2018: Imagine Digital - Connect Europe” (Vienna, 4-6 December, 2018).

Europe has set ambitious objectives for 5G deployment in the 5G Action Plan from 2016 as well as for pan-European 5G Corridors for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) in the 3rd Mobility Package from 2018. On 7 February 2019, the European Commission held a workshop with all stakeholders interested in the deployment of 5G networks along roads to enable Connected and Automated Mobility Services.

The aim of this workshop, as part of the ongoing Commission study, was to inform relevant stakeholders and experts about insights and preliminary results, discuss the views of stakeholders and gather concrete feedback that would contribute to the final results of the study.

A newly published study analyses existing security certification schemes for cloud computing, and asks why they have not been more widely adopted. It also sets out the minimum requirements that an EU-wide certification scheme in cloud computing would need to cover.

High performance and reliable networks will be the core of Europe’s Digital Single Market (DSM). Increasingly, convergence of fixed and mobile networks (FMC) will form their basic foundation, essential for the next generation of 5G networks, to support broadband services, both fixed and mobile.

The last phase of Horizon 2020, the EU's Research and Innovation programme, has been launched. Roughly EUR 6 billion out of the overall budget of EUR 30 billion will be spent on research and innovations in the ICT sector. ICT is present in many of the Horizon 2020 areas. This guide is designed to help potential proposers find ICT-related topics across the different parts of H2020 in work programme 2018-20.

The objective of the study on Spectrum assignments in the EU was to assess the specific elements, processes and conditions under which radio spectrum, in particular for 5G usage including wireless broadband, should be authorised and assigned by Member States and how timely access to spectrum can contribute more fully to the general objectives set out by the EU regulatory framework (SMART 2016/0019).

The study provides an overview and analysis of existing self-regulatory, co-regulatory and full regulatory measures and frameworks that apply to cloud services provided in the European Union (Study reference: SMART 2015/0018

Data localisation restrictions are perceived as being a barrier to a functioning Digital Single Market and a flourishing data economy. A study was conducted to investigate about data localisation restrictions that are currently in place.