The third Phase of the 5G Public-Private Partnership co-financed by the European Commission under the Horizon2020 research and innovation programme fully reflects the European 5G policy based on a massive adoption of 5G network infrastructures by vertical industries.

Today, the vast majority of commercial 5G deployments are focused on the classic eMBB use case, expanding the success of mobile technologies to address broadband application initiated by 4G. However, the full promise of 5G based on the implementation of the Standalone option to serve advanced use cases from vertical industries is still to fully materialise.

The 5G PPP Phase 3 provides massive support to this objective, with comprehensive trial and pilot opportunities offered not only to the ICT industry but also to vertical user industries to test their innovative use cases with large scale 5G infrastructures. With 53 running projects representing a € 430 million public investments, more than 570 beneficiaries including about 80% of industrial actors and more than 40% of SMEs, this third Phase represents one of the largest incentive programme towards 5G adoption by industrial users in the world. It has allowed to make available a comprehensive pan European 5G trial infrastructure with more than 30 nodes allowing to validate a multiplicity of use cases.

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