📋 Tender Overview
There wont be a single category that defines the value of 5G. Instead I think there will be a range of new capabilities that are hugely valuable for consumers and businesses. And often when you read about 5G it tends to skew to either smartphones or large enterprise businesses. Sure theyll benefit from 5G and were already seeing this today. But so too will small and mid-sized businesses. From cars to video games to healthcare to augmented reality to manufacturing and more 5G has the potential to empower a range of killer apps or services for almost everyone.To fulfill that promise 5G was designed and is now being deployed in a much different manner than previous wireless generations. In short were moving network services much closer to our users.If you can reduce the geographic distance between the user and the online service or data theyre accessing response time or latency speeds up. That makes existing applications feel much smoother. And new possibilities emerge for cutting edge mobile applications that previously werent possible.Imagine a connected car or even someday soon a fully autonomous car on a 5G network where the 5G standalone network core is in the same city or region. That reduced latency means cameras radars and other sensors on that car can scan the environment and send the data across a localized network to be analyzed and responded to in near real time. Of course for that to work seamlessly the cloud services that do that analysis also have to be located in the same region. And modern software-defined network services are needed to optimize all that data movement.
