The ITU Asia Pacific Centre of Excellence Online Training Course on “Fifth Generation (5G) Implementation: Practices and Case Studies”, was successfully conducted from 27th June – 03rd July 2022 using the ITU Academy platform and Zoom video conferencing tools. The online training workshop was successfully organised by the Wireless Communication Centre, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia and ITU, in collaboration with IEEE Malaysia COMSOC & VTS Joint Chapter.
49 participants from various industries, universities and government agency completed the programmed.
This course achieves a participation from local and international participants and attended by 78% local participants and 22% international participants. See Figure 3. Overseas participations are from Hong Kong (HKSAR) (2), Thailand (7), West Africa (1) and Austria (1). From 49 participants who attended the online training, 78% were from the industry and 22% were from academia.
Training Course Structure
5th Generation technology is here. Globally, various stages of 5G implementations such as trialling, licensing, deploying, limited launches, nationwide launches have taken place. Implementation challenges exist, and innovative deployment approaches are required before the full potential of 5G network and services can be realized. This course aims to equip participants with industry best practises and lessons learned in 5G network implementation.
The learning objectives of the course are:
• To equip the participants with the understanding of 5G implementation considerations
• To equip the participants with an understanding of the economics of spectrum
management and approaches for spectrum sharing.
• To equip the participants with the understanding of the approaches of network
infrastructure sharing and network deployment strategies.
• To equip the participants with communication strategy to achieve public
acceptance of 5G roll out.
• To equip the participants with operators’ case study and best practices