It’s become almost a mantra in the industry: 5G will make automation a necessity, because of the large number of network devices that will be deployed to ferry the huge amounts of data that will inundate networks. Many vendors and a host of others all have plans and programs that will help with that automation. And while 5G is still largely under development and hasn’t been rolled out on a large scale, it seems that MNOs that are doing so have not rushed to implement automation – even though every company involved in 5G holds by that mantra.
