In a summer commercial of a large telephone company, an Italian swimming champion is seen to the tune of a very popular song. The theme is 5G, the new communications frontier that has been talked about for some years now. The fact is that from the commercial it is not clear what special this 5G would have.
What can we do different from the 4G Lte that we use almost everywhere in Italy. The previous commercial of the same company showed a famous cardiac surgeon who was absent for a few moments from his daughter’s wedding in a church overlooking the sea to virtually enter the operating room, solve a vital problem, and then return in time for the yes.
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by Antonio Dini
Very exciting but in that case the message was: you need 5G if you are a heart surgeon capable of using the technology we have seen in the Matrix. In short, to us normal users, no. Honest, but commercially disastrous. And that’s the problem. It is full of reviews online that claim that 5G has been a waste of time and money for those who bought it so far. Yet the users are growing. This was stated in the latest Ericsson Mobility Report for which a billion people will be subscribed to the service at the end of the year.
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It is a fact that doesn’t really say much: when you go to buy a sim or a smartphone, 5G is now almost always included in the price. They pull it after you. The theme is: is it really good for anything now? I’m not saying that this is useless technology for consumers (other than for factories, operating theaters and warring drones). I’m saying that for most consumers it’s still a technology looking for a problem to solve. What is missing is that application that makes us say: with 5G it’s a whole other life. Will arrive.