“Many tech companies are looking to hire engineers to develop 5G use cases. For jobs like network administration, testing and software development, companies are likely to hire experts in areas such as infrastructure development, equipment, network operations and spectrum services,” said Sherla Sriprada Business Fundamentals Analyst at GlobalData.
Reliance Jio, Vodafone and Apple Recruitment to these posts
Reliance Jio Hiring to ‘Lead 5G Core and Cloud Architecture’ to support diverse use cases and core products for 5G. The posting for rival Vodafone Idea’s ‘AGM – Practice Lead – Smart Mobility’ will require experience in the smart mobility vertical and 5G connected cars, electric vehicles.
Apple has also advertised roles in the 5G protocol layer and is hiring an ‘RF System Architect’ to advance emerging 6G spectrum policy, use cases and trends in radio access networks for 6G radio. Defines and researches.
The list includes job postings of telecom equipment companies. Nokia has also opened a 5G Industrial Incubation Lab in South Australia and has posted a ‘Graduate Engineer in Technology’ role. Ericsson’s Application Development Platform (ADP) is a new division dedicated to microservice development aimed at enabling 5G. One of the roles posted was ‘Software Developer for ADP 5G’, which looks at developing microservices container environments, including adapting to common requirements. ericsson as well as developing new facilities.
Sriprada says, “Companies are not only looking at 5G investments, they have also shown interest in 6G investments and related roles. Posted over 130 jobs between January 2022 to July 2022 based on 6G as the title search showed. This is evident given Nokia Corp’s advertised role for posting ‘Senior 6G Sustainability Architect’ and Ericsson’s ‘RF Research Engineer 6G Antenna’.
According to GlobalData’s company filings analytics database, major players such as Ericsson, China Telecom, Deutsche TelecomAnd American Towers was discussing CapEx and investments around 5G production in 2022.
“In its 2022 first quarter report, Ericsson discussed investments of SEK 1.1 billion in CapEx and other investment activities, including 5G production capacity. Deutsche Telekom noted that its cash CapEx (before spectrum investments) increased from EUR 0.4 billion to EUR 4.7 billion, largely due to the ongoing build-out of its 5G network in the US operating segment, where cash CapEx increased from EUR 0.4 billion to EUR. 3.0 billion,” Sriprada said.
In 2021, American Tower saw the early stages of transformative 5G network upgrades in several markets, with approximately $105 billion spent by US carriers for significant mid-band spectrum and $ in CapEx deployed by carriers in network investments across the global footprint. Contains more than 65 billion.