5G Trends for 2020
2020 was set to be 5G’s big year, with the next generation of cellular network emerging from the twin veils of technological development and marketing hype to achieve commercial reality.
Then COVID-19 unceremoniously kicked 5G from the headlines, dominating the social and enterprise IT conversation in the intervening months. Yet work on 5G has continued, albeit with a bit less fanfare. The work on 5G remains true for five key trends that IDC sees as critical to realizing the potential of 5G and establishing it as a driver of multiplied innovation for this year and beyond.