Killer application? We don’t need your killer application. Or rather … the network itself is the killer application, in that it enables multiple services and lets users do what they want.
Chris Sambar, AT&T’s network president, makes that argument in a new blog post summarizing some of the telco’s recent network developments, including its work on 5G Standalone.
“Over the last three years, our network has seen an annual 30% increase in traffic,” Sambar writes, adding the caveat that per-user traffic growth has actually been more than 30%. “This is the direct result of the pace of innovation and the changing needs of how people integrate technology into their everyday life. Our network is the new killer app and it’s paving the way for what’s next.
