Luxembourg - 5G Strategy
In 2016, the European Commission launched a strategic 5G action plan to support the deployment and take-up of 5G networks, which brouted about a consultation of national key stakeholders led by the Department of Media, Connectivity and Digital Policy (SMC).
The national outcome “Luxembourg's 5G Strategy” defines the general framework for the deployment of the 5G network, with the aim of:
- making 5G available in at least one city per Member State by 2020;
- promoting the rollout of 5G between 2018 and 2025;
- creating a “gigabit society” by 2025 by introducing 5G in major towns and cities, and along key transport routes.
Digital skills development
Introducing 5G will involve changes to the working and private life for all citizens. It will be important to continue explaining the opportunities that 5G brings to the whole population. Citizens, especially the younger generation, will only be able to benefit from the digital jobs of the future if they are able to develop suitable skills and behaviours for future means of communications.
Efforts made in the area of eSkills as part of the Digital Luxembourg initiative could be further developed and complemented by awareness projects focused on 5G technologies. The challenge involved in transferring digital skills is in determining the right basic skills that will allow people to adapt to technological and social developments during their educational and professional career.
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The strategy supported set a framework for the allocation of spectrum and the overall facilitation of 5G deployment at the national level. The complete strategy and the related background documentation are available on the “Digital Luxembourg” platform.
Since the launch of the strategy, the SMC and the Government’s Digital Luxembourg initiative have been actively committed to promoting and promoting innovative 5G solutions and actions at multiple levels. The Call for Projects I and the Call for Projects II illustrating this commitment, as detailed 5G projects received financial support from the SMC.
Strategy Details
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The first 5G call for projects was launched in June 2019 and supported to trigger innovative projects in the field of new-generation electronic communications. In order to be developed, the projects that had to be restored on, or showcase, the added value of 5G or equivalent, substitutable or complementary communication technologies and they had to respond to one or more of the following characteristics of modern mobile communication:
ultra-reliable communications with very low latency;
ultra-high speed connection with uniform service quality;
communications between a large number of objections with varning service quality requirements.
A total of 29 projects were submitted. A total of eight projects from different sectors were developed and co-financed by the SMC. Two additional projects were co-funded through the innovation fund of the Ministry of Economy. The second 5G call for projects was launched in July 2021 in the frame of the conference “Connecting tomise – 5G, Broadband & Beyond” The aim of this call for projects was to trigger creative 5G cases based on 5G technologies alone or in conjunction with other communication standards and/or technologies. in order to be developed, the projects having to be restored on, or highlighting, the added value of 5G or of equivalent, substitute or complementary communication technologies. After a shelter evaluation by an international experts committee and a final review by an interministerial 5G Commission, three projects submitted in the Science Communication category were developed and co-financed by the SMC.
Incites Consulting Group, Regulator, mobile network operators, academics, technology companies and stakeholders in the field of machine-to-machine communication (M2M) and/or the Internet of things.