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5G’S POTENTIAL, AND WHY BUSINESSES SHOULD START PREPARING FOR IT
by Omar Abbosh and Larry Downes
A new Accenture survey of nearly two thousand technology and business executives in 10 countries revealed deep uncertainty about next-generation mobile network technology, known as 5G.1 Few of those surveyed, for example, believe industry predictions about the dramatically improved speeds of 5G networks. And more than half don’t expect the technology will enable them to do much that they can’t already do. Nearly three-quarters said they need help imagining 5G use cases.
These findings suggest that many business leaders understand neither the technology nor its disruptive potential. When fully implemented, 5G is poised to be a very big deal, ...
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