anyone. who didn't know when you become a geek wait to islamist terror until you see so you can i mean my city has been in preschool an exclusive report from a destroyed city. philippines in the us starts april eleventh on g.w. . germany's five gene frequencies go up for auction today who will be building the ultra fast mobile networks and can it be done without hardware from chinese tech giant far away. also on the show more than half the world's population has mobile internet access but speed and costs vary from continent to continent we ask how is africa facing the challenges of the mobile age. i'm stephen beardsley in brylin thanks for joining us the next generation mobile standard in germany hits the

auction block today telecoms companies will bid for radio frequencies to operate ultra fast five g. mobile networks a technology needed for autonomous driving or the so-called internet of things now so far the bidders are deutsche telekom british vodafone and spanish telefonica as well as german newcomer one and one in other parts of the world five g. has already taken off forecaster for one hundred one hundred twenty million subscriptions in the asia pacific region by two thousand and twenty one that's followed by north america by forty eight million with europe than in third place twenty two million subscriptions by twenty twenty one and then bring up the rear latin america with three million and africa with two million subscriptions and let's go now to our business correspondent paul christian brit's who's standing by in mines germany where the auction is set to take place paul you're there right now with this auction taking place does this mean that five g. is right around the corner for consumers. well steve

we have a huge high above five g. but you know the super fast internet isn't going to come super fast the operators that. are are looking for the frequencies right now there are required to cover ninety eight percent of the country by twenty twenty two. years me and their main focus is going to be industry first because that's where the money is going to be and until consumers will notice that will take a while also it's not going to just come with you know someone. switching switching it on and then it'll be right there'll be incremental and slowly build up. the big question for companies how profitable will five g.b. for them that will very much depend i don't know it's an unsatisfying answer but that's how it is it will depend on how much money they spend today for example in two thousand when frequencies were sold

they were sold for fifty a billion that was a huge sum right now we're looking at three to five billion probably for these frequencies but back then they ran out of money to actually create the infrastructure that they would need to to set up the networks and for five g. they're going to require to set up a lot of infrastructure a lot of cell towers because they're not as far reaching as the four g. towers are right now so a lot of promise from five g. but also a lot of questions paul because your bread's joining us there from mines germany. and there's of course a big controversy surrounding build out of the five g. network in germany and the rest of europe almost every major telecoms carrier says they need network gear from hardware provider huawei to meet both cost and deadline but the u.s. has been pressuring its allies to prohibit the chinese telecoms giants and it hasn't let up. remote brain surgery in china the

patient was in the beijing hospital a neurosurgeon three thousand kilometers away in the southern island province of high none of the light images and medical data were transmitted by an ultra fast five g. wireless network with video conferencing and other technology from quad way this is just the latest example of the game changing use of new super fast five g. networks europe also wants to use the technology but the space in a problem quite way is one of the main producers of five g. hardware but the company is said to be too close to the chinese government apart from unconfirmed allegations of espionage there are concerns that technology could pose a security risk if it were used in sensitive infrastructure in europe was this have to recognise that china is also pursuing its strategic interests through economic policy are they so we mustn't be naive when it comes to important infrastructure projects like the awarding of a license let's forgive it sounds. complicating the move to next generation mobile standards is pressure from the us not to use huawei hardware china's foreign

minister winey meeting in brussels with ease counterparts cold security warnings groundless and politically motivated and suggested they were designed to discredit huawei. that it's built up to now wireless network operators in the e.u. could decide themselves who's technology the scheme but in some countries in the block the debate is growing about how to restrict the use of equipment from non european companies that could pose a risk to critical infrastructure and that could affect why worry. now for more on this i'm joined in business is clifford couldn't clifford in light of this austin auction that's happening today can we even say that the german government is really unified in their position on huawei i don't think we can because we have two issues here basically we have a political issue and then we have a security issue and they're kind of at loggerheads at the moment. on the one hand trade is massive with china it's one hundred hundred thirty billion euros

a year on the other hand you have the possibilities that there could be security issues with using weiwei equipment so the government is trying to balance these two quite different positions so i think it's fair to say that they're not quite unified on this is it realistic for a government like the german government for any nation to completely prohibit huawei as a hardware provider it's getting very difficult way provides the really the best equipment the big european manufacturers seem to have fallen behind although they claim they have and they also provide at the right price so it's very difficult not to introduce this because five g. is such amazing technology no government is willing to be the one just say that we're not going to have it because of security concerns. this also comes as a question in europe why we should say not just within germany about using huawei and this comes as the e.u. itself is sort of taken to heart attack against china in recent weeks working tell us there you know well the e.u. has sort of talking about china now as a strategic rival it's changing its view

a little bit on the china has before it seem to do to make a lot of concessions when it came to dealing with china now it's taking a harder line so i think i think that while we falls into this a little bit particular it comes to things like a level playing fields which is a big issue for trade talks you know would china allow german companies to bid for a five g. license it's very unlikely so there's a lot of these sort of debates coming up and i think before this auction is over we're going to see a lot more of these sort of questions being raised and discussed now briefly a lot of accusations out there about. we seen any evidence yet that makes them the suggest they are a trojan horse to beijing there's been no real concrete evidence there's been a couple of cases that have been linked to hallway but very little has been proven it's more the question of the possibility i think that's where the security experts are always looking at risk management so i think they see it because of its links to the government they see as a possible risk aren't so something we keep watching clifford conan business and studio thank you very much clifford. and that conversation was recorded earlier

this morning that mobile networks are of course a big reason more people are online some four billion people now experts say but not all have the same access to data for example let's take watching a football national or smartphone how much is the data cost in europe for example it only cost point two percent of your average monthly income that's where it's fast and fordable compared here compared to other nations now in asia you're going have to dig a little bit deeper there a football match going to cost you one point five percent of your average monthly income and in football crazy latin america is going to cost you even more which is going to make it a little bit hard to get through the game and of course in africa this is where it costs the most streaming a football match on that work would cost you nine percent almost nine percent take fees open kitchen in johannesburg case something special those who east here are constantly surprised there's a different cook in the kitchen every day over its offering

a new creation the emphasis is on healthy food. eric von boss came up with the idea three years ago he sees a growing customer base for healthy food. he'd like to be able to deliver too but to do that he'd need high speed internet and cheap mobilization. so you have units and i think you have why you need to have a camp where you can. provide for your customers. and also maintain the business when it comes to the point of sale all over the internet so it's quite a challenge because it's quite expensive. right. from south africa to west africa. young people looking up their phones maybe a common sight on the streets of. but only one third of the canadian population is online mobile access to the network is often unstable even in the capital.

that's a headache for small companies like stimulus technologies. defined who at his seven employees offer network marketing services. i think you always have to think. and it's. so easy how fast the speed. and people in east africa have their own share of problems take uganda if you're looking to send a message or post a photo on instagram you have to be prepared to pay up since july of last year the government's been cashing in on every click in the three months following the introduction of the so-called tax the number of social media users fell by three million. clearly bagan has been importing cosmetics united states for the past three years much of her business takes place online the o t t tax is

a big issue for her right now he's. just a you just like the points as they used to and yes that was like biggest marketing place so you have to kind of look for other ways of marketing. to cover up for that up here listening to the social media with the intention is clearly begun now runs every killer store in the capital kampala for many africans buying in person is still the easier option. earlier chief political editor. as the president of policy for global solutions initiative what challenges africa's facing an area of digitalisation here's what he had to say the key challenge lies in the possibility that as digitization proceeds machines will take over more and more routine work and as many african citizens average citizens

do routine work those jobs may well be lost and africa's big challenge is to give people generally the skills and the training that they need it particularly social skills and creativity that will allow them not to be replaced by machines. and that's it for me in the business team i'm stephen beard thanks for watching.

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