Nowadays we all have heard before about 5G and how revolutionary this technology will be for our lives, but many people have not really understood the impact of this technology on their professional and everyday lives. To begin with, 5G is the fifth generation mobile network that runs in the same frequencies we are using now on our smartphones and is 100 times faster than 4G. No company or organizations control it, but instead there are several companies that have contributed to inventing funtamental technologies that made 5G the next wireless standard. Well established 5G networks will provide new opportunities, enabling companies to deliver groundbreaking solutions in areas such as AR, VR and IoT technologies. Also, 5G will lead us closer to smart cities, where the lives of people will be transformed due to higher connectivity between people and devices, higher data processing speed and low latency in areas such as entertainment, driving safety and health care. 5G is going to have a great impact on the global economy too since studies indicate that it will increase the total economic output by 13.1 trillion dollars and will create 22.8 million new jobs(Qualcomm, 2021).
Analysts have observed that almost 55 percent of our mobile internet traffic occurs from video streaming. This demand for high quality video streaming will definitely increase even more in the future. Entertainment industry will benefit from 5G since streaming 4K videos of best quality will only take milliseconds and live streaming events will be broadcasted to mobiles without any interruptions. Furthermore, VR games are getting very popular and more and more companies are investing in them. High speed and low latency is a must for these games, thus 5G seems to be a perfect fit.
Internet of things and its broad spectrum of applications is another area that 5G networks will revotionalize. IoT will connect every device on the Internet, collecting huge amounts of data that will require to be collected, transferred and analyzed in real time speed. 5G is the most efficient solution for IoT technologies because of its flexibility and low cost solutions. Iot will provide solutions with the usage of 5G networks in areas such as smart homes, logistics and shipping, smart cities, industrial IoT, smart farming, fleet management, healthcare, autonomous driving, drone operation, security and surveillance. Even though 5G is not something new we forget that it is an integral component for every other technological advancement. After all, can you think of something more disruptive that 5G?
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What is 5G? (2021, May 13). Qualcomm. https://www.qualcomm.com/5g/what-is-5g
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