Speaking to Bloomberg News at MWC Barcelona, Ekholm compared Europe’s sluggish move to 5G unfavourably to China

“China has already built out a 5G standalone network,” he said.

“Europe has elected to be a museum,” he added. “That’s a choice European citizens have to live with.”

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    EU badly needs data sovereignty and need to focus on securing the open source eco-system. They also need to crack down on gathering and sharing personal data. End the surveilance economy. It would not hurt to make mobile phone and data contracts cheaper and easier for consumers.