Ericsson sees major role for microwave backhaul in 6G era

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson reckons microwave will still account for half of mobile backhaul in 2030.
This is the headline figure from the company’s latest Microwave Outlook, through which it offers a snapshot of trends in the microwave radio market. As you can see from the charts below, Ericsson expects the global rollout of fibre to macro sites to plateau at around the 50% mark as we approach 2030, when is roughly the time 6G should start to appear in the wild. That figure, it should be