Maybe it’s the heat that’s making my mind hazy. Or the neon lights and crowds. But when I look at private 5G, I see an incredibly complex network of stakeholders and I see the market somehow simultaneously developing at a snail’s pace and lightning speed. CSPs looking to monetize 5G by selling solutions into high value verticals have been peddling a vision of digital transformation that isn’t really a reality with any sort of scale. Meanwhile, enterprise users, particularly in markets with liberalized access to spectrum like Germany, are making their own digital transformation happen on their own terms.
