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Global Business: Our 5G Future

Our 5G Future

23/06/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Global Business, Our 5G Future

With the 5G mobile network looming Keith Moore examines how it could impact business.

With the fifth generation mobile network looming Keith Moore asks how this next step in mobile technology could impact businesses both large and small.

In just a couple of years, the fifth generation mobile network will be available. Like previous generations, 5G will offer consumers greater speed and capability when they use their smartphones and tablets.
 
Advocates argue it is more than just the next step in that evolution. Lightning fast speed, greater bandwidth and more reliability have the potential to transform entire industries: from how a surgeon operates on us and the products we use are made, to how we are transported to and from work and home.
 
In this programme, Keith Moore wades through the hype to see how this next step in mobile technology could be used in the real world. He visits London and Brighton in the UK and Stockholm and Gothenburg in Sweden and meets businesses both large and small who are already preparing for our 5G future.

Producers: Keith Moore and Smita Patel

Image: Shutterstock

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