5G is coming and bringing with it an explosion of data. In fact, experts anticipate that mobile networks will be handling more than 77 exabytes of data per month by 2022. That represents an astonishing growth rate of nearly 50 percent per year. But this data tsunami is not the end of it. Coupled with speed, performance and low latency characteristics of 5G, it means that tomorrow’s networks certainly offer the promise of enabling a wide range of new business opportunities to ‘cash in’ on the network investment. However, the successful monetization of those new opportunities is not always as certain.
