There’s a saying that generals are always preparing to fight the previous war. They’ve learnt successful strategies from prior experience and are inclined to use them in the next battle. Learning from experience is critically important, but previous strategies can be inappropriate when other factors change.It might be that the mobile community is fighting a 5G war with lessons learnt from previous generations – a conclusion drawn in my recent book ‘The 5G Myth’.
In the past, introductions of new generations of mobile technology have concentrated on faster speeds and greater capacity. Many are assuming that 5G will continue this trend. Ericsson, for example, has said there is a general industry consensus “that traffic volumes will be multiplied 1,000 times; 100 times more devices will require connectivity; some applications will demand data rates 100 times the speeds that average networks currently deliver; some will require near-zero latency; and the...