Mobile Magazine March 2022 | Page 99

5G

5G , BUT BETTER ?

OR

SOMETHING

MORE ?

From edge computing and the promise of driverless cars to the looming spectre of the metaverse , 5G assures much , but so far is still very much in the phase of simply improving what was already here . “ We ’ ve seen from past changes in mobile generations , such as 3G to 4G and 4G to 5G that the new generation provides the improved performance that makes use cases from the previous generation work

“ A KILLER APPLICATION TO DRIVE THE NEED FOR MASS ADOPTION [ OF 5G ] HAS YET TO MATERIALISE ”

STEVEN CARLINI VICE PRESIDENT OF INNOVATION AND DATA CENTRE , SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
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