5G is setting the stage for a boom in cellular use cases that extend beyond those in the consumer segment, creating what Stéphane Téral, chief analyst at LightCounting, called “a long tail of services,” all of which come with their own potential for monetization.
5G’s promise of lower latency and higher throughput, for instance, is being used to address enterprise, Industry 4.0 and autonomous vehicle needs, opening up new monetization opportunities for communications services providers (CSPs), as long as they carefully pair technology investments to desired business outcomes.
