The potential of 5G ft. the only mmWave demo at MWC 2019

It's not always that we get to see the birth of a new generation of cellular wireless technology. Sure we have been reporting about it since 2015, the murmurs started as far back as 2009 but fast forward 10 years, 5G is not a buzzword anymore, it is a reality. We have devices ready to go to market with battle tested functioning chips, the standards are in place and many nations are getting the 5G spectrum ready so that operators can deploy infrastructure. While operational difficulties are being solved at speeds we can't imagine, it is time we take a big picture look at 5G. How is this new technology going to change our lives? Well, let's first take a deep dive into this new technology and how it was demonstrated at the Qualcomm booth at Mobile World Congress 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6M6A8RHNhA Towards the end, you could see that the words started getting too technical. That's often the case because cellular technology is not so easy to comprehend. It involves a lot of wireless maneuvering that we don't get to see. I mean, think about it. With landline telephones, we could actually see the wires that connected us with each other. There was ...