INSIGHTS+OUTLOOK
Telecoms are like highways in more ways than we’d admit: never the destination, nor even the view – yet there’s no getting there without ‘em. People think of 5G as merely faster phones. Verizon defines 5G in eight speed-throughput configurations that segment its markets.
Skipping 4G to deploy standalone 5G, China reports 500k 5G base station installations; 36 million 5G subscribers; 75% of all H1 5G phones shipped globally. Huawei claims 2/3 of all global base station shipments.
CHALLENGE:
How will the industry evolve, as technology is increasingly both economically and politically strategic?
DIVERGENCES:
Cultural paradoxes in a Digitized Epoch:
Connected but isolated: our social media as echo-chambers?
News AI-curated to my preferences and entertainment: will facts still convey truth?
The pandemic as an analogy for a superconnected world: when viral is viral.
Will my digital self and artifacts be more important than my physical self?
