5G is the next big thing but no one knows why
Industry has to first define what new features it will offer that the current generation of wireless networks can't
Barcelona
RUNNING short of dramatically new phone designs, leaders of the world's wireless industry agree their next big idea is 5G, shorthand for the fifth generation of networks they expect to have up and running by 2020.
But first they'll have to decide what 5G needs to do that the current, fourth generation of wireless networks will never offer.
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