The tactile Internet, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, all these things are expected to hit new levels of penetration and utility once 5G mobile networks move from the lab to commercialization.
In the meantime, the telecom industry as a whole—service providers, vendors, academia and standards-setting bodies—are working to define exactly what 5G will be. There’s broad agreement that 5G will require tremendous network density, access to high-band spectrum, massive MIMO, millimeter wave and more technological features, but that has to be locked down in a standard.
