Analysts said the fact that companies have told employees to stay at home means the physical installation of 5G base stations could be affected.
But with the outbreak of the new coronavirus, which originated in China and has claimed the lives of over 400 people, the deployment could be delayed, according to analysts at China Renaissance.
"The 5G base station installations in multiple cities in China may be impacted by the virus, in our view, which could be a drag on China's 5G deployment," the financial services firm said in a note published Monday. "We expect the extended Chinese New Year holiday and a series of quarantine measures to cause delays to the 5G base station installations on towers."Vinod Nair, a senior partner at Delta Partners, an advisory and investment firm specialized in the telecoms, media and tech sectors, said that production of equipment is less likely to be an issue. Instead, having employees remain at home could reduce the amount of people physically able to put up infrastructure in China.
"Coronoavirus impacts the supply chain and it specifically impacts labor intensive services like network deployment," Nair told CNBC. 5G has become a highly politicized issued between the U.S. and China. Washington has sought to get China's Huawei, the world's largest telecoms equipment maker, banned from
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