Does 5G have potential to be a harmonising technology layer?

It seems the adoption of 5G is yet to make a bang in India; but rumour mills constantly swirl with potential dates as early as August 2021. A lot of times, when you look at availability of spectrum, you ask ‘what are the incentives?’ and ‘how do you help with the availability of spectrum or clearing of the spectrum?’ The next part of the value chain asks ‘how are we able to work with the local communities and other parts of zoning, easements and licensing to deply 5G small cells?’ When you compare a traditional sub-1 GHz cellular networking, 5G will require a serious increase the number to the number 5G small cells. We wrote the 5G Future Home book prior to the global pandemic and we predicted that within the next five years, we’d teach our kids at home, work from home, get healthcare at home, enjoy virtual entertainment or immersive gaming at home – then COVID-19 pandemic accelerated all these predictions We take that one step further and ask how to make that consumer feel at home in their autonomous car during the ride to work, in their office which may move each day, at a shared gym Naturally, the next step is connecting the communities to districts to get to a smart city infrastructure – a smart, personalised environment. DKB: There’s still a lot of paranoia and skepticism around 5G and the future home. It was incredibly validating that many of the use cases in the first four chapters of ‘ The Future Home in the 5G Era: Next Generation Strategies for Hyper-connected Living ’, which I co-wrote with Dr Boris Maurer, George Nazi, Amol Phadke, are starting to at least come into the public eye.