Identifying Key Issues of 5G Adoption in Indonesia

Abstract

There is an increasing demand for mobile telecommunication networks to provide a higher capacity, higher reliability, and higher capability to handle the massive connection. This trend is expected to continue in the future, indicating the need for more sophisticated technology. Today, Indonesia is preparing for the adoption of the most recent technology, that is 5G. It is important to identify critical issues on technology as well as on socio-economic to ensure a seamless transition. We investigate the issues by employing the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method. There are five criteria to be analyzed, namely acceptance, business, performance, flexibility, and technology. Each of them has four to five sub-criteria. The results show that among other sub-criteria, the existence of new and proper business models, security and privacy, the availability of new market opportunities, Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology, and health and environmental issues are the top five critical factors of 5G adoption in Indonesia. These results are expected to provide a useful guideline for the industry as well as policymakers in developing a strategy to adopt 5G technology in the future successfully.