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Friday, 8 March 2019

Conversations with Qualcomm – What’s next with 5G?

As with every technological leap, adoption takes time. Smart analysts use the adoption curve to predict how fast a technological advancement reaches people and how many people it reaches at a given time. We are now at the early adopter stage in 5G, it's here but we are only at the very beginning of its inevitable spread to not just masses of people but devices as well. To understand how that's done, read our first conversation but in this one, we are talking about the near term and long term plans. What's next with 5G? Read on. Danny Tseng leads Technical marketing at Qualcomm. His domain is all about the research of the future, what kind of intellectual property is produced to advance to a stage where the standards of 5G are created AND implemented. We began our conversation with Qualcomm's near term plans for 5G. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4BXjnsI48M Danny said he's been talking about 5G since the 2015 timeframe and in 2019 we are seeing devices, infrastructure and everything needed to enable this technology but he also added that it doesn't stop here. New use cases are going to come with 5G, but in 2019 it starts with a non-standalone version of 5G. What ...