Will LTE phase out with 5G evolution like 3G being vanished now?

Opinion
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Based on Ericsson latest Mobility Report, LTE is there at least 2030.
10 years are safe easily🙂.
Infact more…

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We are safe then :+1:
As I’m seeing as well still lot many new IE there for LTE but still 5G hype sometime reason to think as we seen how fast 3G vanish most complicated and vast technology.

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I say minimum 10 years.

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Enough time to survive by seeing covid time.

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I have more important question:
We RF engineers should continue our profile or should change path to testing, etc?

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Good question by seeing how craze increase for Python, Big Data, AI.

Like also discussed here too: How to switch your career from a Core telecom professional to a Cloud professional

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RF is shrinking more than expected.
Now AI has started overtking it.

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There are many opening in market for testing. Many smalll vendors are emerging.

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What I find from my experience with RF we must have multi domain knowledge at least for our field so having more chance to survive.

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Features based on AI have already been shared by vendors.

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Earlier very few experts use to there for feature trials and all but now operators guy capable of doing themselves just few parameter/kpi do job.

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I don’t know how it is taken, but with age our learning apetite is reducing.

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You can see on LinkedIn full of O-RAN related discussions, 5G free training…
It’s not seen earlier during 3G time.

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Testing career has no future!
Test automation is the future, troubleshooting is a good skill to have those days.

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Now it’s very much trending so I asked my query for LTE are we safe or not.

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But still RF engineers in markets are very high in number, retaining jobs.

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New company provide lot help for new jobs like Mavenir, Radisys, etc.

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Depends, I guess.
Systems integration and testing has jobs.
Interoperability tests has jobs.
Maybe drive testing has not.

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Old good days are gone. Not so many RF jobs those days.
I wanted to say that everything is automated those days.
Testing, the way we knew it is not done anymore.

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RF purely mean KPI, Counter analysis and trending, with very few having system access. This is gap here.