Episode #322 What Do Banks Know About Cryptocurrency? by  CryptoViewing https://youtu.be/xOzB5mT353c

Barclays cryptocurrency (Google Search)

Video NOTES:

• ​Why Coinbase cutting ties to Barclays Bank?
  • Barclays will not be caught flat footed by cryptos and several steps ahead of all of us.
  • Barclays Bank is very cryptocurrency informed several steps ahead of us.
  • Coinbase is worried about Brexit.  People in the UK are going bat crazy about Brexit.  
• Coinbase is a U.S. based company associated with the Digital Currency Group
• The Digital Currency Group is in direct competition with other Banking conglomerates.

Crypto from Beginning to the End Game - Jeff Berwick on Road To Roota by The Dollar Vigilante https://youtu.be/kFc7t7Pyy0g

Blockchain “Smart Grid” to be Tested in Fukushima

​https://btcmanager.com/blockchain-smart-grid-tested-fukushima/

I saw this video by Matrix Portfolio a/k/a Ben and I'm like the Predictive Programming Scenario.  The Luciferians "Dark Lords" can not do their devilish deeds with out telling us first.  Did they strike again? ...and is it true?

Phoenix rising out of the ashes. Economist magazine
by Matrix Portfolio

To the Internet search I go to see what I can find...

Search Term: 1988 the phoenix rising out of the ashes economist magazine

I have been listening to youtubers and seems Japan is using cryptocurrencies.  Let me see how far down the rabbit hole this goes.............

Three Japanese Banks Launching Digital Currencies, Japan's Amazon Rakuten New Digital Strategy
https://www.jetro.go.jp/ext_images/canada/pdf/fintechseminaroct1817ueno.pdf

2.13.2019 MUFG and Akamai to Launch Blockchain Payment Network in 2020
MUFG is also developing a digital currency - MUFG Coin - as part of the project

2.17.2019 Japanese “Amazon” Rakuten May Soon Accept Cryptocurrency

1.22.2019 Japan moves toward a cashless society by RT America

1.22.2019 ​Japan's Next Big Thing - LINK Cryptocurrency By LINE by  The Crypto Lark

5.1.2018 Top 5 Cryptocurrencies & Altcoins in Japan! by Altcoin Daily​​

1.23.2018 Japan a global leader in cryptocurrency investment
4.5.2018 14 Percent of Japan's Young Male Workforce Invest in Cryptocurrencies, Study Shows
4.10.2018 Japan Could Have More Than 3 Million Crypto Traders
1.4.2018 Japan: The New Heart of Bitcoin
Top 5 Cryptocurrencies in Japan

• Bitcoin
• Ripple
• Ethereum
• *****XEM(NEM) (Started 3/2015 - Fix Bitcoin Problems - Complete with Visa/Master Card - No Minors Harvesters - Inexpensive Transaction Fees)
• MonaCoin (Tip coin - Fork of Litecoin)

9.1.2018 Top 5 Cryptocurrency Projects from Japan

• MONACOIN (MONA)
• QASH (QASH)
• ALIS (ALIS)
• NEM (XEM)
• CARDANO (ADA)​

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The Japan Times on Cryptocurrencies

• 2.28.2019 Cases of money laundering linked to cryptocurrency in Japan up tenfold in 2018
• 2.15.2019 JPMorgan Chase unveils cryptocurrency prototype
• 1.12.2019 Coincheck wins approval to run cryptocurrency exchange a year after massive theft
• 12.6.2018 6,000 cryptocurrency laundering cases reported to Japanese police from January to October
• 9.27.2018 'Summer Davos' in China casts spotlight on technological advances beyond Silicon Valley
• 9.25.2018 Japan's Financial Services Agency criticizes hacked crypto-exchange over lack of details on $62 million theft
• 9.23.2018 The myth of the stable cryptocurrency
• 9.12.2018 PSG announce deal to launch cryptocurrency
• 9.2.2018 Japan's FSA tightens screening process for aspiring cryptocurrency exchanges
• 8.23.2018 SEC quashes more bitcoin ETF pitches in another blow to cryptocurrencies
• 8.21.2018 Soviet fertilizer lab reopens in Russia as cryptocurrency 'farm'
• 8.19.2018 Monex chief sees cryptocurrency future for finance industry
• 8.8.2018 Japan's Financial Services Agency set to update cryptocurrency regulations in speculation countermeasure
• 7.31.2018 19-year-old CEO creates app to bring Japan's voters and politicians together
• 7.1.2018 Is bitcoin creator writing a book? Cryptic note indicates yes
• 6.28.2018 In fintech bet, Line to launch overseas cryptocurrency exchange
• 6.23.2018 Mt. Gox creditors get new avenue in years-long attempt to recover bitcoin losses
• 6.22.2018 FSA orders virtual coin exchanges to fight laundering
• 6.19.2018 FSA to punish major cryptocurrency exchange operators
• 6.15.2018 16 in Japan found to be using PCs of others for cryptocurrency mining via embedded website programs
• 5.28.2018 More than 300 cryptocurrency traders logged over ¥100 million in income in 2017: National Tax Agency
• 5.25.2018 Bitcoin for otaku: Tokyo startup to launch cryptocurrency to serve communities

1.22.2019 Will people ditch cash for cryptocurrency? Japan is about to find out
Crypto for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

• Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he wants 40% of payments to be cashless by 2025
• government announced plans to offer tax breaks and subsidies for companies that get on board
• some of the country’s biggest financial players think the way to wean Japan off cash lies in the technology that runs Bitcoin
• Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the country’s largest bank and the fifth largest in the world by total assets, has teamed with American internet company Akamai to build a blockchain-based consumer payment network in time for the Olympics
• MUFG, which has also tested its own crypto-token
• Mizuho Financial Group, a large holding company, has been experimenting with blockchain technology for several years as part of a project dubbed “J-Coin” and plans to release its own digital currency for retail payments in March
• SBI Holdings, a big financial-services firm, says it’s building its own token, also for retail payments, called S Coin.
• The wager all these companies are making is that Japan’s society is primed to start using digital cash
• It is relatively technologically savvy, cryptocurrency trading has been uniquely popular in the country for years, and Japan’s financial regulators are more familiar with blockchain technology than any others in the world
• government’s pressure to go cashless
• Japan could leapfrog the technology underlying today’s electronic payment networks and go straight to blockchains
• experiment works, the country’s economy might be remade
• Everything from huge transactions between banks to small retail purchases could be carried out with barely any delay and at a fraction of the current cost
• Japan will become the world’s biggest test bed for the decade-old idea that a cryptographic ledger and a network of computers can be used to create an electronic form of cash

The legacy of Mt. Gox

• between 2010 and early 2014—Tokyo-based Mt. Gox was the global online platform for buying and trading Bitcoin
• 2013, it accounted for 70% of all Bitcoin transactions
• hackers made off with $450 million worth of Bitcoin from the exchange, causing it to collapse, the shock waves were felt worldwide.
• disaster was particularly traumatic for Japan, recalls Aya Miyaguchi, who at the time was working for Kraken, a US-based exchange that was one of the few competitors to Mt. Gox. “For the most part, people did not know anything about Bitcoin
• worried Miyaguchi, a native of Japan who moved to the US 10 years ago and now heads the Ethereum Foundation
• ​Miyaguchi met with Mineyuki Fukuda, an influential lawmaker in Japan’s ruling party who had been given the job of figuring out how to regulate the technology
• In the late 1990s and early 2000s Japan’s tech industry, once the envy of the world, had lost big chunks of global market share to foreign companies, particularly in South Korea and China
• Diginex, a Hong Kong–based consulting firm focused on blockchain technology.
• Japan rolled out the world’s first (and still only) licensing regime for cryptocurrency exchanges, which went into effect in April 2017.
• authorities were less forgiving after hackers looted half a billion dollars in January 2018 from Coincheck, an unlicensed exchange that was operating under an exemption
• Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) launched investigations of the nation’s cryptocurrency exchanges and ordered several of them to fix shoddy security practices. The regulators toughened up licensing, slowing new approvals to a halt; Coincheck, now under new management, finally got its license
• After the Coincheck incident, the FSA “studied very hard about cryptocurrency and cybersecurity” and wound up better informed than most consultants in the industry, says Oki Matsumoto, chairman and managing director of Monex, Coincheck’s new owner.
• Mt. Gox fiasco, the government turned the Coincheck hack into a teachable moment.

Inventing crypto-cash

• blockchain-based cash can succeed in Japan: retail investors there already love crypto
• affection apparently stems from their affinity for trading foreign currencies
• Japanese traders account for more than half of all global margin trading in the foreign exchange market
• they’ve expanded to cryptocurrency trading, taking advantage of Japan’s bustling (and now regulated) exchange scene
• hard to pin down the Japanese cryptocurrency market’s exact size, but it has become Asia’s biggest market since China clamped down on trading in 2017
• Analysts at Deutsche Bank say Japanese retail investors were a big reason why Bitcoin’s price shot up to almost $20,000 in late 2017
• Prepaid card services like Suica, which are sold by the country’s major railway companies, are popular.
• Andy Champagne, CTO of Akamai, is convinced that the pieces are in place for Japan to end its love affair with cash.
• an extraordinarily technical society, and a society that’s very interested in transacting digitally
• government’s push to go cashless fast, “it’s a unique opportunity at a unique time.”
• Third-party services like exchanges can have big security problems, as the Mt. Gox and Coincheck hacks showed. And the most popular blockchains are slow and require masses of computing power to secure the ledger, which gives them huge carbon footprints.
• The systems Japan’s banks are building could change that. MUFG’s blockchain will run on Akamai’s servers. The company is skilled at building proprietary algorithms to deliver web content to users around the world, its core business. That expertise readily translates to running a network that’s more energy efficient, faster, and cheaper to operate than a public blockchain, Champagne says. So much so, MUFG believes, that even payments too small to make sense on traditional credit card networks will be feasible.
• Will people in Japan really ditch their cash for blockchains, though? Yoriko Beal, cofounder of HashHub, a co-working space for blockchain startups in Tokyo, is skeptical. The popularity of Suica cards shows that it’s not outside the realm of possibility. But she believes it’s about utility, not about the underlying technology. Suica cards are very useful, so people adopted them, she says: “If MUFG and Akamai are so sure that using blockchain can reduce costs a lot compared to, like, using metro cards, it might happen.”

Quote from article, "Criminals, drug dealers, and crooks aren’t the ones driving the price of bitcoin higher—it is Japanese men. At least that is the theory put forward by analysts at Deutsche Bank. They reckon Japanese traders in their 30s and 40s, who historically engaged in trading real currencies such as the yen and dollar, have turned their sights to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin."

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"Mitsubishi" and ??? are venturing in to cryptocurrencies together... who?

• fintech is now in the mainstream. A huge industry in its own right, fintech is paving the way for mass scale disruption across the financial spectrum and may be the greatest threat to the status quo.
• Leading companies such as Uber, Netflix, Skype and AirBnB have led the charge
• Apple and Google, have begun their own skirmishes into financial territory
• Huge innovations in payments, money transfer, wealth management, and mobile banking are just the beginning.
• 2014, MUFG recognized this growing trend and sought to capitalize on the swelling momentum by establishing an Innovation Center tasked with identifying uses and applications for leveraging new technology. In July 2015 it created a Digital Innovation Division, which has regularly hosted a start-up accelerator program ‘MUFG Digital Accelerator’ to facilitate entrepreneurial innovation and to develop new fintech products and services.
• Visitors to Tokyo’s Narita Airport have already had a glimpse of the robot revolution through NAO, a new multilingual humanoid robot unveiled in 2015 by MUFG. Standing at 58-centimeters NAO is the first robot bank teller, able to read emotions and speak 19 languages potentially (currently English/Chinese/Japanese) to help travellers with currency exchange, money transfer and other banking questions.
• For now, we need look no further than the excitement around the distributed ledger technology known as ‘blockchain’ - the technology underpinning Bitcoin - to see how financial institutions are racing to adapt, evolve and embrace fintech.
• hype surrounding blockchain is focused on the technology’s ability to store complex transaction data across an intricate and shared network, making it incredibly difficult - if not near impossible - to falsify.
• backdrop of a low interest rate environment and increasing scrutiny, regulation and competition, banks and financial organisations across the world are looking for new way to cut costs and improve efficiency. Blockchain technology has the potential to radically increase the speed, effectiveness and scope of core banking functions, in the process breaking down barriers, to making transaction instantaneous and global.
• Soon banking beyond borders could be within reach.
• Banks are examining the macro-economic and consumer-facing potential of blockchain, and the possibilities to create a viable digital currency.
• near future we could see the first bank issued digital cryptocurrency enter the market - ushering in a new era of virtual currencies.
• MUFG, as member of global blockchain consortium R3, is heavily involved in the development and progression of blockchain technology, as an investor and strategic partner with San Francisco-based Coinbase - the world’s most popular way to buy and sell Bitcoin.
• ‘MUFG Coin’; where blockchain technology could be applied for a variety of everyday financial needs, such as withdrawals and deposits to transactions and payments.
• coin could have large-scale commercial potential, as well serving small-scale retail bank customers. Other than MUFG Coin, MUFG is testing another untitled digital currency rewards for employees who reduce their overtime hours and practice a healthy lifestyle, which resonates strongly to the work style reform of Abenomics.
• group is also conducting a new digital currency trial through one of its subsidiaries, Kabu.com Securities Co, where employees will be awarded a blockchain-based currency called ‘OOIRI’ in recognition of good health as a new way to incentivize health and active lifestyles.
• it will be those who have made the investment, taken the time to test the potential who may be grasping the greatest competitive advantage in banking for decades.
• fintech is too great to ignore
• MUFG there’s a collective commitment to ensure the group remains a champion of fintech.
  • ​Creating New Dedicated Organizations to Promote FinTech
  • A Comprehensive Range of Financial Services Meets Our Customers' Diverse Global, Regional and Local Needs
  • Your Trust, Your Future, Our Commitment

Mitsubishi IBM Blockchain Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin And Stellar Get A Big Boost From IBM's 'Stable Coin'

9.27.2016 Currency Settlement Service CLS Reveals Big Blockchain Ambitions

• CLS is building a payments netting service that will enable cash trades on IBM’s Fabric blockchain.
• at the Sibos financial industry conference in Geneva, the service will mark the entrance into a new business category for New York-based CLS, which is historically known for providing settlement for traditional currency trades.
• Early banks that have agreed to support the new blockchain platform include Bank of America, Bank of China (Hong Kong), Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley.
• CLS Group CEO David Puth argued that the company’s wide customer base and global presence gives it an edge in bringing a new blockchain-based solution to the market
• CLS does business with 21,000 institutions worldwide
• CLS managing director Ram Komarraju said the offering will be built on a closed blockchain.
• CLS Netting, the new product will rely more heavily for security and efficiency on the private distributed ledger.
• CLS is a founding member of the Hyperledger initiative, along with fellow member IBM.
• CLS is well positioned to bring a currency exchange product using blockchain to market.
• CLS announced earlier this year it would extend its business partnership with IBM to help mitigate risk on the platform. But it turns out, that partnership now extends to blockchain services as well.​

Azure Integration Opens Blockchain Firm Kaleido to 80% of Cloud Market

• Kaleido’s software-as-a-service blockchain solution now works on Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS).

2.14.2019 Largest Japanese Bank Mitsubishi UFJ to Launch Blockchain Payment Network

Mitsubishi IBM Blockchain 2019

Mitsubishi IBM Cryptocurrency 2019

• What’s In Store For The Top 10 Cryptocurrencies In 2019
• A Complete List of Bitcoin Friendly Countries
• The Global Challenge for Investor Services in a Growing Asset Management Market​

Mitsubishi IBM Bitcoin 2019

• 2.22.2019 ​​IBM Blockchain Head: Bitcoin (BTC) Could See $5,000 By 2019’s End, But $1M Eventually

Conclusion: I will continue to research as in my opinion Cryptocurrencies are here to say...

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• 3.9.2019 THETA Successfully Tested in CJ Viewing TV Box — First IoT & Smart TV Example
  • Theta protocol into the CJ Viewing Box
  • Android-based set top TV box
  • CJ Viewing Box is a product from our partner CJ Hello
  • media & entertainment subsidiary of the $25B Korean conglomerate CJ Group
  • Theta protocol was able to share video streams between the Viewing Box, mobile devices, and PC. Development will continue in the coming months toward deployment of this technology
  • video delivery on PC and mobile devices to all forms of data delivered to the entire universe of IoT and connected devices.
  • Internet of Things (IoT) market is predicted to double by 2021
  • building on the early success of set top video streaming boxes like Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Google Chromecast and Apple TV
  • household of the future will have connected TV’s, refrigerators, washing machines, and more
  • ***fully connected network of smart devices contributing latent network and data resources to Theta
  • collaboration with CJ Hello represents the beginning of Theta’s evolution towards the decentralized data delivery (3D) network of tomorrow
  • ​recently began collaborating with IoTeX, a leading project at the intersection of IoT and blockchain
  • Korea meetup with our friends at Zilliqa, Quantstamp, and Kyber Network
  • Theta mainnet is set to launch on March 15th and IoTex’s mainnet soon after
  • our projects are discussing the many ways we can leverage our respective blockchains and domain expertise to drive adoption of our protocols
  • working closely with the IoTeX team to drive Theta Network adoption on all connected devices
  • THETA extremely excited to be on the cutting edge of the media and entertainment industry, pushing the boundaries of IoT, Smart TVs and data delivery — in partnership with forward thinking partners like CJ Hello and IoTeX

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• Viewing Box, here
• detailed specs of the Viewing Box
• ​CJ Hello Youtube

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Big New Announcement From Theta. Think Long Term. $THETA $ENJ $LTC
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NY Games Conference | Panel: Blockchain Gaming Revolution by WAX_io https://youtu.be/Gix0ju2QU00

Article: Forget Samsung's Galaxy S10, This Is The Smartphone To Buy

Quote, "Galaxy Note 10 is just five months away…"

Video Credits: Samsung Galaxy S10 Unlock Hack (WARNING)
by Unbox Therapy
https://youtu.be/BGgQ9woZQOg

Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 Design Suddenly Comes Together

Research:

• 12.11.2018 Samsung Dismisses Galaxy S10 Crypto Wallet Reports as ‘Rumor and Speculation’ by CoinTelegraph - Samsung has refuted rumors that it has plans to offer a cryptocurrency cold wallet on its Galaxy S10 smartphone, in comments to Cointelegraph Dec. 11. - Korean-headquartered transnational tech conglomerate had recently filed three E.U. trademarks for blockchain- and cryptocurrency-software Dec. 10 - Samsung community news sharing site SamMobile today, Dec. 11, the trademark requests are part of alleged plans to offer a cryptocurrency cold wallet on the Galaxy S10 smartphone - three E.U. trademark requests appear in searches on the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) website, and are titled “Blockchain KeyStore,” “Blockchain key box” and “Blockchain Core” respectively. - filed under the trademark category of “Smartphones - Taiwanese consumer electronics manufacturer HTC announced the release of the “first native blockchain phone,” this May, with news this week that decentralized browser Brave is to be the native browser on the firm’s blockchain phone, known as “HTC Exodus 1.” - Samsung SDS the conglomerate’s IT and tech subsidiary made inroads into the blockchain space via partnership with major Dutch bank ABN AMRO on a pilot to use the technology for shipping. Samsung SDS launched its own blockchain platform for finance-related businesses, as well as a further blockchain implementation that targets the logistics industry.
• 10.22.2018 Europe’s Largest Port Partners with Samsung IT Subsidiary to Test Blockchain for Shipping by Coin Telegraph
• 5.16.2018 HTC Reveals Plans To Launch Blockchain-Powered Smartphone by CoinTelegraph - HTC has unveiled “the first native blockchain phone”, HTC Exodus, which will launch with support for multiple blockchains, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) - will support “multiple blockchain protocols,” such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Lightning Network (LN), and Dfinity network - company’s mission is to support the entire blockchain ecosystem in order to “help underlying protocols expand their base of dedicated nodes. - secure hardware enclave - high standards of security and data protection - HTC is not the first to develop a blockchain-based mobile phone - April, the blockchain-oriented OS developer and supplier Sirin Labs found a manufacturer for its blockchain smartphone - FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology, has agreed to help develop the phone. Foxconn is a giant in electronics contract manufacturing, with clients including Apple, Google, Cisco, Huawei, and Amazon.
• 4.8.2015 - IBM & Samsung Bet on Blockchain to Power The Internet of Things by Bitcoin Rewind - ADEPT

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​Different Perspective Where are We Going w/Cryptocurrencies

I Love Bitcoin. Walk with me. by Matrix Portfolio 

• Video Note: Fake EMP - regarding control collapse: Mesh System would have to be on the 5G, gotenna works off rf frequency (lower rf frequency goes 3-4 miles and works complete off grid), Siren Labs, How to run a node, 5G and the Mesh System, XYO - Remapping the globe via geo mapping, 1 hadara hash graph

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• Bitcoin Ben
• Bitcoin Black
• Clif High a/k/a Half Past Human
• Crypto Viewing a/k/a Dick Aligire (Dick's World)
• Gotenna
• IOST
• Jsnip4 a/k/a Realist News
• Judge Jeanine Pirro, The National Emergency - Opening Statement by frankfoti
• Matrix Oracle Portfolio Patreon
• Montagraph
• NEM
• Road to Roota a/k/a Bix Weir
• Russia developing their own INTRAnet
• Stellar (XLM)

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• 2.20.2019 - Putin instructs to launch 5G networks in Russia in coming years​ - (Quote: MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed in the coming years to organize in Russia access to high-speed Internet and start operation of the fifth-generation communication systems 5G. "This year, it is necessary to adopt a master plan for the development of the digital economy infrastructure, including telecommunications networks, data storage and processing facilities. development of 5G communication networks in Russia was expected to be launched into commercial operation after 2020. By 2024, according to the "Digital Economy" program, 5G networks in one form or another will be launched in all cities with population over 300,000 people. Telecom companies MTS, Vimpelcom and Megafon are testing the 5G technology in Russia.)

• 12.4.2019 - America Races China for the Future: 5G Technology Battle Goes Global by Breitbart 

• 10/31/2018 5G to cover over 80% of Russia’s population by 2025: GSMA
• 10.30.2018 RUSSIA TO RAPIDLY SCALE 5G FOLLOWING LAUNCH OF FIRST 5G NETWORKS IN 2020, FINDS NEW GSMA STUDY - (Quote: Russia is set to become a “fast follower” 5G nation on the global stage, with 5G networks forecast to provide coverage to more than 80 per cent of the country’s population by 2025, according to a new GSMA study. Russian mobile operators are set to launch commercial 5G networks in 2020 and 5G is expected to grow to account for almost one in five of the country’s mobile connections (48 million) by 2025, establishing Russia as the leading 5G market in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Other countries in the region expected to launch 5G services by 2025 include Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Uzbekistan, according to the Mobile Economy: Russia & CIS 2018 report, which was published today at the Mobile 360 Series – Russia & CIS event being held in Moscow. “Our new study reveals how Russia will lead the CIS region into the 5G era over the coming years, as operators invest in rapidly building out 5G coverage across the country’s population, following the launch of the region’s first 5G networks in 2020,” said Mats Granryd, Director General of the GSMA. “These new networks have the potential to create digital economies and drive the transformation of industries, but will require a supportive regulatory framework focused on encouraging investment and innovation, for example, by ensuring the timely availability of harmonised spectrum to 5G operators at a suitable price.”  Subscriber Growth Slows as 5G Era Nears
  The CIS region is one of the most highly penetrated mobile markets in the world, behind only Europe and North America. At the end of 2017, there were 232 million unique mobile subscribers1 in the region, equivalent to 80 per cent of the population. Russia accounted for more than half (128 million) of this total and is the region’s most highly penetrated market at 89 per cent. 4G has plenty of headroom for growth as the region enters the 5G era. 4G accounted for 16 per cent of connections at the end of 20172, largely driven by Russia, which was one of the first countries in the region to launch 4G in 2012. All three main Russian operators have since launched LTE-Advanced networks, which provide an evolutionary path to 5G. By 2025, 4G is expected to account for more than two-thirds of the region’s total connections with 5G accounting for 12 per cent by this point.The first 5G-based use cases in the region are expected to focus on enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), which will add capacity and higher speeds for mobile internet access, usually in urban hotspots where 5G will be an offload solution to ease network congestion.  However, 5G-based Internet of Things (IoT) and enterprise solutions will follow soon after. The number of IoT connections in the CIS region is forecast to triple over the next few years, reaching 660 million by 2025, opening up opportunities in areas such as smart cities and smart utilities. Other areas of opportunity for mobile operators in the CIS region include e-commerce, blockchain and investments in the startup ecosystem.)
• 9.14.2018 Huawei to construct 5G network in Russia (Quote: Chinese telecom giant Huawei has announced that it is preparing for the construction of a 5G network in Russia, with the project being experimented in Kazan.Lin Ruiqi, Huawei's senior vice president, told Sputnik News Agency & Radio of Russia that the company will help Russia build a 5G network, while also taking an active part in the development of Russia's national 'digital economy' strategy, according to Sina News.Lin concluded by saying that Huiwei is cooperating closely with Kazan and discussing the possibility of turning it into a 'smart city', which includes the research and the development of intelligent traffic signals and safety facilities in addition to 5G technology.)
• 1.8.2018 - MegaFon is currently the only telco with spectrum to carry out 5G testing - (Quote: