5G Roaming to Equal 115M Hours of 4K in 2026: Juniper

The installed base of roaming 5G subscribers is projected to reach 210 million people globally in 2026 from 4.5 million this year, reported Juniper Research Monday. As 5G roaming “proliferates,” vendor competition for such roaming services will “intensify,” it said. Juniper forecasts that global roaming data traffic from 5G subscribers will increase to 770 petabytes by 2026, from 2.6 PB this year, “enough data to stream 115 million hours of 4K video from platforms like Netflix.” One petabyte is 1,000 terabytes.