China is leading the 5G network adoption with reports mentioning that they’ve reached more than 200 million 5G users by first quarter of 2021. Following China, South Korea and Australia has been fast in adopting the new network as well. With this, Asia Pacific is predicted to keep on pioneering 5G. However, there are still barriers for adoption for 5G such as the technology being too expensive and that the consumers are still satisfied with the existing networks. The new 5G network also needs a specific phone to support the network therefore it adds an extra barrier to switch from one network generation to another.
Some survey takers also mention that the benefits of 5G is not as appealing to make them change networks. This could relate to the fact that people in Asia Pacific mostly use their mobile phone merely for mobile banking and video calling that does not necessarily require them to change to 5G network. Other than that, consumers trends in Asia Pacific uses mobile phone for entertainment which mostly is music streaming.
Despite these barriers to adopting the new 5G network, many organizations still predict that Asia Pacific is still going to lead the network adoption.
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