UK is at the forefront of 5G technology and pursue to become a leader in due course. These slides summarize some of the key policies of UK government and its affiliated institutions.

1. www.huawei.com
UK 5G Strategy
May 2017
Khurram Qayam
Wireless Solution Sales (UK&I)

2. UK 5G Strategy
UK to be a global leader in the next generation of mobile technology
Organizations involved:
1. Future Communications Challenge Group (FCCG) @ Department of Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) – Policy making & implementation
2. National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) – Government think tank on major infrastructure development
3. Ofcom – Telecom regulator & spectrum award body
4. TechUK – Major tech industry consortium
5. 5G Innovation Centre – University of Surrey – Major R&D body
6. Ordnance Survey (OS) – Supporting government body
The strategy will deliver three main outcomes if successful:
 accelerating the deployment of 5G networks;
 maximising the productivity and efficiency benefits to the UK from 5G
 creating new opportunities for UK businesses at home and abroad, and encouraging inward investment
The Autumn Statement 2016 confirmed £400 million of Government investment in the fund (Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund) to
invest in new fibre networks over the next four years. The Government has selected a shortlist of fund managers and expects to launch
the fund during the first half of 2017.
Government additionally allocated £740 million to telecoms investment up to 2020-21 through a new National Productivity Investment
Fund, in particular to support the roll out of full fibre networks (otherwise known as Fibre to the Premises or FTTP technology) and future
5G communications.

3. Department of Culture Media & Sports

4. A 5G Strategy for the UK – DCMS Report
Key themes that will determine progress towards 5G:
Building the Economic Case – Not yet established
• £16 million for first phase of the collaborative facility, to run 5G trials
• 5G Innovation Network will launch a new national programme of 5G testbeds and trials
• Testbeds & trials are based on the principles of interoperability, replicability and openness
• Test use cases in both rural and urban areas; and to improve our understanding of the economics of infrastructure deployment in different scenarios and
locations and how infrastructure can be deployed in a cost-effective way
• ‘Hub & Spoke’ model will deliver an end-to-end 5G trial in early 2018 and support a number of testbed spokes from 2018/19.
• Funding for future trials will be awarded on a competitive basis
• Government is establishing a new centre of 5G expertise in DCMS to ensure that work across the UK to develop 5G capabilities
DCMS will work with UK Research & Innovation, Government Digital Service, Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, industry,
& other public sector bodies
5G is not just an extension of existing technologies but a “system of systems” that will bring flexibility to mobile

5. A 5G Strategy for the UK – DCMS Report
Fit for Purpose Regulations
• The Government has also introduced much-needed reforms to the Electronic Communications Code that will directly address investment barriers, encouraging
long-term capital investment in digital infrastructure, lowering the cost of infrastructure roll-out, and supporting further coverage enhancements.
• Government will review at the end of 2017, if further changes are needed to the planning and regulatory system to meet the unique challenges of 5G
infrastructure deployment.
• Many of the potential use cases of 5G will also be subject to their own regulatory regimes (e.g. financial services) that could act as a barrier to their swift
deployment. We will use the 5G testbeds and trials programme to improve our understanding of the different regulatory regimes in which 5G applications and
services will operate, working with the UK’s regulatory authorities as appropriate, and report back by the end of 2018.
Local Areas – Governance & Capabilities
• Government is currently consulting on requiring local authorities in England to have planning policies setting out how high quality digital infrastructure will be
delivered in their area.
• Government believes that there may also be a case for encouraging and supporting local areas to develop broader plans to deliver local mobile connectivity.
• The Government will bring together a working group of local areas, government departments, landowners and industry with the aim of providing an accurate
picture of local area requirements for the deployment of 5G networks.
Coverage and Capacity - Convergence and the Road to 5G
• Ofcom’s latest coverage statistics indicate that 4G coverage is now available to 96% of UK premises and over 70% of UK landmass.
• The Government agrees with the NIC that there should be high quality coverage where people live, work and travel.
• We will set out by the end of 2017 what the essential elements of high quality coverage where people live, work and travel are, and how we will achieve this as
soon as is practical, and no later than 2025.
• The Government will ask Ofcom to set out by the end of 2017 how meaningful coverage & capacity be achieved for existing and new services.

6. A 5G Strategy for the UK – DCMS Report
Ensuring a Safe and Secure Deployment of 5G
The 5G testbeds and trials programme will work with organisations such as the National Cyber Security Centre to support the development of new security
architectures that meet the expectations of customers and the needs of 5G services and applications.
Spectrum
• Government will ask Ofcom to review and report back to DCMS by the end of 2017, the scope for the spectrum licensing regime to facilitate better 4G and 5G
deployment at national, regional and local scales, including in-building usage.
• Government welcomes Ofcom’s commitment “to ensure that 5G spectrum is made available in the most appropriate and timely way”.
• The Government will prioritise making available public sector spectrum for 5G, subject to an assessment of where there is a clear and demonstrable value.
• Government will work with Ofcom to assess the feasibility of accessing the 3.8-4.2 GHz range on a shared basis as an extension to adjacent 3.4-3.8 GHz
spectrum and promote this in Europe and agree a timescale and clear milestones for further work.
Technology and Standards
• The Government will continue to engage with the appropriate Standards Developing Organisations (SDOs) to support the take up of UK needs and ideas in the
emerging 5G standards, and monitor developments in security and supplier markets.
• The Government will also consider whether measures such as patent pools and portfolios could assist the market to develop and promote UK interests.

7. Future Communications Challenge Group (FCCG)
UK Strategy and Plan for 5G & Digitisation - Driving Economic Growth and Productivity
Mobile impact to UK economy opportunity, £198bn per annum by 2030, 5.7% of UK GDP. UK leadership, enabled through report recommendations, estimated to
generate £173bn of incremental GDP over 10 year period from 2020 to 2030.
RECOMMENDATION 1 - R&D
Government should focus investment in three areas:
i) ICT Research and Development – Government to assess current spend and impact in delivering its 5G manifesto commitment7. Optimise spend to
provide a stronger technology pipeline, generate demand, create the skills base, standards capability and global linkages.
ii) Test Beds and Trials - Initial goal / key milestone - 5G end to end trial by Q1 2018.
Government to invest in test beds and trials focused on UK system integration strengths applied to key socio-economic challenges, key sectors or
“verticals”, and pragmatic use cases. Investment to be made in areas to augment and leverage ICT Research and Development working with industry.
Investment decisions will explicitly favour proposals where effective and coherent security is demonstrated in test-bed and trial design. Outputs of work to
inform early deployment and infrastructure National Infrastructure Commission (NIC)
iii) Create Steering Group, Standards and Knowledge Dissemination activity for R&D, test beds, trials, SME & Micro engagement and associated Standards
work, and ongoing advice on international benchmarking and deployment. The new group should be set up initially to implement collaborative showcases,
knowledge exchange, dissemination, co-ordination and resulting standards work.
All funding to be aligned across Government funding agencies to ensure synchronisation of criteria, objectives and timing.
RECOMMENDATION 2 – International Collaboration
Government should encourage and strengthen the UK / international Science bridges to leading 5G nations for collaborative R&D, Test Beds / Trials, Standards
alignment and collaboration into international forums. Targets: China, South Korea, Japan, USA and Europe. This is important for shared costs, maximising
economies of scale and future collaboration / export opportunities. This will require funding to be administered by Department for International Trade (DIT)
working with Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Science Innovation Network (SIN) with steering linkage from new body detailed in recommendation
1iii) and Section 7.2.
RECOMMENDATION 3 – Energy Efficient Solution
Government to work on encouraging energy efficient and resilient solutions, from R&D funding through to local / national procurement. Provide industry
direction / procurement signals: A “digital first” Government strategy declaration linked to public funded capital projects would be a desirable goal.

8. Future Communications Challenge Group (FCCG)
RECOMMENDATION 4
Government should assess how 5G adoption can support and deliver core Government policy and associated socio-economic challenges and opportunities
across sectors such as: Creative Industries, Transport, Business, Health, Utilities, Manufacturing and Smart Cities. Each Government Department needs to signal
the move towards digital operation through policy and procurement and implement strategies to address common approaches and linkage across these vertical
sectors, underpinned by a coherent security strategy.
RECOMMENDATION 5
Explore, through 5G test beds and trials, models to provide coverage alongside roads and rail lines. Link with Smart Cities projects in densely populated areas.
Assess the impact to the UK coverage and relative contributions, for fixed and mobile broadband, leveraging public / private partnerships.
RECOMMENDATION 6
Government should assess whether current plans to simplify or remove requirements for base station deployment planning permission go far enough to support
effective 5G deployment. Progress should be accelerated in opening up access to public owned buildings and infrastructure and should consider specific rights
to access public infrastructure (e.g. similar to those proposed by ARCEP in France - see Spectrum section 5. Policy should focus on ensuring that access to
backhaul AND site locations are open, streamlined and more cost-effective. This is inhibiting investment roll out today.
RECOMMENDATION 7
Government should, as part of its planned strategy for 2017, consider with Ofcom how relevant spectrum can be brought into use to enable early and rapid
deployment of 5G in the UK. This should be consistent with European harmonisation, including 700MHz and 3.4-3.8GHz and support the identification of new
globally harmonised spectrum above 24GHz at WRC-19. Explore potential to access 3.8-4.2GHz range on a shared basis as an extension to adjacent 3.4-3.8GHz
spectrum and promote this in Europe. Longer term strategies for WRC and UK Spectrum needs, should be agreed with the UK Spectrum Policy Forum.
RECOMMENDATION 8
Ofcom should make available on request spectrum for test beds and trials which has the potential to lead to early deployment and longer term
commercialisation. Spectrum recommended for test/trials is follows: Low 700MHz, Mid 3.4 to 4.2 GHz and appropriate High frequency spectrum in line with
European RSPG recommendations and Global opportunities for exploitation.

9. Future Communications Challenge Group (FCCG)
Strategy, four phases from research to commercialisation5G eco-system

10. Future Communications Challenge Group (FCCG)
Use case examples by Sector mapped to 5G design goals
Phase 1 to Phase 3 evolution and standardisation

11. Connected Future – NIC Report
The NIC aims to be the UK’s most credible, forward-thinking and influential voice on infrastructure policy and strategy
PART 1: THE MOBILE REVOLUTION IN CONTEXT
UK lacks the level of coverage necessary to offer these basic mobile services ubiquitously. In rural areas
3% of the population do not have any coverage outside their homes (complete not-spots) and 25% do
not have coverage offered by all the main mobile networks (partial not-spots). Coverage on our road
networks is poor even for voice coverage (2G), 17% of A and B roads are in complete not-spots and an
additional 42% have only partial coverage.
UK is in 54th position in global rankings for 4G, with typical users able to access the service only 53 per
cent of the time.
Countries such as the United States and Japan already have data volumes four to five times higher than
the UK.
A lack of government action risks the UK finding itself once again near the bottom of the league tables
for connectivity as 5G is rolled out.
PART 2: DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AT THE HEART OF GOVERNMENT
• Government as a digital champion
• Connectivity on our major roads
• Connectivity on our main rail routes
• Engaging local government as a partner
PART 3 – ENABLING THE MARKET TO DELIVER WHAT WE NEED
• Meaningful coverage
• Regulation that is fit for the connected future
Website: https://www.nic.org.uk/

12. Connected Future – NIC Report
There are currently 40,000 base station sites across the UK. The denser network required for 5G will require
many more.
As many as 42,000 small cell sites could be needed to deliver the ultra-fast broadband speeds expected of
future networks in an area the size of the City of London.

13. UK Digital Strategy 2017
The UK’s digital infrastructure must be able to support this rapid increase
in traffic. Independent research suggests increased broadband speeds
alone could add £17 billion to UK output by 2024. In a CBI survey, 81% of
firms said that they see more reliable mobile connectivity as essential.
Effective Regulation
• Access to Infrastructure Regulations ensure digital communications
providers can access other providers’ physical infrastructure, across a range
of sectors, on fair and reasonable terms
• Reforms to mobile planning laws in England have reduced planning
requirements, allowing new sites to be developed quicker and a greater
number of small cells to be deployed
• Reforms to the Electronic Communications Code, made through the Digital
Economy Bill, will further encourage an efficient use of infrastructure by
promoting site sharing
Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) also supports local authorities who want
to jointly fund investment with communities to enable new infrastructure
projects to go ahead
Better Connectivity for All
Broadband, Mobile, & Transport
Networks of the Future: Full Fibre and 5G
Delivering ultrafast speeds, Full fibre, 5G and fibre testbeds, Spectrum for
connectivity

14. Pillars of UK Industrial Strategy 2017
Good digital infrastructure is a building block of the Government’s modern Industrial Strategy

15. Ofcom
Ofcom carry out strategic work in spectrum management, including making sufficient spectrum available for 5G,
spectrum clearance, spectrum awards and many other on-going projects.
The roadmap identified the following building blocks for 5G:
 Low bandwidth spectrum at 700MHz. Spectrum clearance project is underway with the aim to release the spectrum in 2018/2019.
Commercial services are expected in 2020. Minimum of 60 MHz will be available initially.
 Medium bandwidth spectrum at 3.4 – 3.8 GHz as a “primary” band, which will provide capacity for new 5G services.
150 MHz (3410-3480 MHz and 3500-3580 MHz) has been cleared and will be released later this year.
3605 to 3689 MHz band is already assigned to electronic communication services, including mobile (UK Broadband & now with 3UK)
consultation completed for extra116 MHz within the 3.6 to 3.8 GHz band to be available for mobile services.
 High bandwidth spectrum at 24.25 – 27.5 GHz as the “pioneer” millimetre wave band to give ultra-high capacity for innovative new
services, enabling new business models and sectors of the economy to benefit from 5G.
Website: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/spectrum-management

16. techUK
Website: http://www.techuk.org/
techUK represents the companies and technologies that are defining today
the world that we will live in tomorrow. More than 950 companies are
members of techUK. Collectively they employ approximately 700,000
people, about half of all tech sector jobs in the UK. These companies
range from leading FTSE 100 companies to new innovative start-ups. The
majority of our members are small and medium-sized businesses.
techUK is committed to helping its members and the sector grow.
It does this by helping members to:
Develop Markets
techUK works with its members to identify and advance innovation in the key markets
representing the most significant opportunities for growth both domestically and
internationally.
Develop Relationships and Networks
techUK helps companies broaden their network, build connections and deepen
relationships with potential customers, partners and suppliers.
Reduce Business Costs
techUK works with our members to identify and help shape key public policy issues to
optimise our industry's economic potential–both domestically and overseas.
Reduce Business Risks
techUK affords unique insights on key issues to help members make more informed
decisions—and ensure a competitive edge in their markets.
Gordon Luo, Huawei CEO for UK&I is a board member of techUK.

17. 5G Innovation Centre
Professor Rahim Tafazolli is current director of 5GIC and Institute of Communication Systems
Website: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/5gic/
The 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey is now the
largest UK academic research centre dedicated to the development of the
next generation of mobile and wireless communications. Bringing together
leading academic expertise and key industry partners in a shared vision,
the 5GIC will help to define and develop the 5G infrastructure that will
underpin the way we communicate, work and live our everyday lives in the
future.
The 5GIC is funded by £12 million from HEFCE (the Higher Education
Funding Council for England) and over £68 million co-investment from the
Centre’s industry and regional partners, including the EM3 Local Enterprise
Partnership.
One of the biggest recipient of Huawei £10 million funding in the R&D
activities in UK
The key work areas are:
 Content and User/Network Context
 New Air-interface
 Light MAC (Medium Access Control) and RRM (Radio
Resource Management)
 Multi-cell Joint Processing
 Antennas and Propagation
 System Architecture and Coexistence
 Testbed and Proof of Concept

18. Ordnance Survey (OS)
Ordnance Survey (OS) has been chosen by the Department of Culture, Media &
Sport (DCMS) to develop a groundbreaking planning and mapping tool that will
be instrumental for the national rollout of 5G technology - the next generation of
wireless communications needed to bring Internet-connected devices into
everyday life.
OS will lead a consortium that includes the 5G Innovation Centre and the Met
Office, and together they will be building a ‘digital twin’ of the real world, which
will be used to determine the prime locations to place the radio antennae (access
points) necessary to enable a 5G network. The planning and mapping tool will be
trialled first in Bournemouth, and if successful the tool has the potential to be
scaled up to cover the rest of the UK, and shared with other countries as they
develop their own 5G networks.
3D viewshed analysis of Bournemouth
Project aims
 Capture real-world features in detail, using a resolution of 10cm. Features include street furniture such as lamp-posts, road signs, bus stops, and
also natural items such as trees.
 Build a 'digital twin' of the real world for Bournemouth, to enable accurate modelling of signal coverage.
 Build a demonstration trial tool to help Government and network planners visualise how the rollout of the future 5G communications network can
work.
 Fully document for Government and network operators, an approach to successfully rolling out 5G on a national scale.
 Fully document our experiments, experience and learning from the project.
Website: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/smart/5g.html

19. BDUK – Broadband Delivery UK

20. BDUK – Broadband Delivery UK
Government defines :
• Basic broadband services as having download speeds of 2Mbps;
• Superfast broadband services as having download speeds of 24 Mbps
or more
• Ultrafast broadband services as having download speeds of 100Mbps
or more

21. 5G in the Politics
Policies related to telecommunication announced by major political parties in UK for the general elections on 8th of June
 More transparent broadband pricing
 Switching between broadband providers made easier
 1 9 out of 20 properties to have superfast broadband (at least
24Mbps) by end of 2017
 Bring 'gigaspeed connectivity' to homes and businesses;
investment in fibre lines
 95% of UK landmass to have phone signal by 2022
 Wi-Fi on all mainline trains by 2022
5G access for majority of population by 2027
 Universal superfast broadband (24Mbps) by 2022
 Improved mobile internet coverage and public transport Wi-Fi
 Plans for 5G across all urban areas, major roads and railways
 Plans to roll-out ultrafast (300Mbps) broadband within next
decade
 Emphasis on improving 4G and broadband in rural communities
 Programme for 'hyperfast' fibre-optic broadband
 Every property to have unlimited broadband with 30Mbps
download speeds and 6Mbps up by 2022
 2Gbps fibre connections for new-build properties
 Work with Ofcom to provide fast and reliable rural 4G coverage