TL;DRGlobal spending on cloud infrastructure surpassed on-premises data centers for the first time in 2020, per IDC.Connected IoT devices exceeded 15 billion in 2023, per IoT Analytics, driving data processing...
Commercial 5G services went live globally in 2019, with Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile launching their first mobile offerings that year. By early 2025 the technology had settled into a pattern...
BT is shifting its 5G capabilities out of the consumer lane and into ports, factories, logistics hubs and energy sites. The company, whose EE mobile arm launched Britain's first 5G...
Fifth-generation cellular technology changes healthcare only where 4G LTE physically could not deliver. That is a narrower set of applications than the marketing suggests, but the ones that work are...
Ofcom's Chief Technology Officer sat down with LeadMonitor in mid-2021 to answer a question that mobile operators were spending heavily to avoid: when will 5G actually change anything for the...
In 2021, the Roman Baths in Bath, England, became a proving ground for a UK government-funded 5G and virtual reality trial. The initiative set out to show how high-speed, low-latency...
In late 2018, analysts and industry watchers published their annual outlook for consumer technology in the year ahead. The projections for 2019 covered 5G networks, foldable smartphones, a reshaped streaming...
Manufacturers are combining private 5G networks, augmented reality visors, and collaborative robots to create a new class of augmented technician on the factory floor. The technical trigger is response time:...
The 5G Rural Integrated Testbed (5GRIT) was a UK government-funded initiative that tested whether 5G could solve the connectivity gaps keeping rural tourism businesses offline. It launched in 2019 as...
5GRIT stands for 5G Rural Integrated Testbed. The UK government funded the initiative to trial fifth-generation mobile technology in places where operators had little incentive to build towers. It ran...
The Smart Town project in Lelystad, Netherlands, was conceived as a large-scale, real-world testing ground for 5G and smart-city technologies. It was to be built on a site near Lelystad...
Helmut Reisinger became CEO of Orange Business Services in May 2018. Over the next four years, he positioned the B2B division of Orange S.A. to treat 5G not as a...
