5G: Four ways it could make a real difference
The continued rollout of 5G will impact various industries in many ways. Here's a few to watch out for.
The continued rollout of 5G will impact various industries in many ways. Here's a few to watch out for.
The commercial deployments will help enterprises that want private networks for the most demanding 5G use cases.
LG Electronics and SK Telecom will co-develop autonomous robots that use a 5G Mobile Edge Computing-based cloud platform.
Japanese telco goes with Swedish and Finnish equipment manufacturers.
Early 5G deployments are now under way, and general awareness of 5G is increasing. However, fully operational 5G networks that can support advanced business-transforming use cases are still under development.
AT&T is working on hospital and stadium use cases for its newly launched 5G network, as well as announcing that it will be connecting Toyota and Lexus cars with LTE between 2019 and 2024.
Telstra has announced multiple agreements to offer commercial 5G smartphones to customers in the first half of 2019.
Samsung is showing off its 5G smartphone prototype at CES 2019, giving users a first taste of what the device will look like.
While everyone else spent CES 2019 talking about 5G, Cisco is already looking towards a 6G future.
5G connectivity will be "a quantum leap compared to 4G," Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said during his CES keynote.