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Have we passed the peak of the smartphone era?
The smartphone market has slowed in recent years, with shipments of Apple, Samsung and others at 1,292 million units in 2020, its lowest total since 2013.
5G
Why businesses must drive the next evolution in global connectivity
To accelerate global growth post-pandemic, 5G needs to be integrated with the other prominent technologies including WiFi and the cloud.
The Digital Transformation of Business
Superfast internet isn't just quicker, it's safer, too
5G has been used in healthcare, to demonstrate virtually how put on PPE for medical staff treating COVID-19 patients, writes Huawei's Deputy Chairman Ken Hu.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
More than speed: 5G could become the next big economic driver
Five ways the Latin American region is preparing for 5G, so that it can fulfil its potential as an enabler of successful digital transformation.
COVID-19
COVID-19 showed the importance of 5G for the economy and the environment
Governments need to prioritise building ultra high-speed 5G networks as an insurance against economic and environmental future threats.
5G
5G Outlook Series: Enabling Inclusive Long-term Opportunities
At a time when we need a resurgence of economic growth, this third and final paper in the 5G Outlook Series outlines the specific opportunities that can be grasped to ensure 5G fulfils it...
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5G Outlook Series: Transforming Essential Services for Economic Recovery in the Great Reset
This second publication of the 5G Outlook Series explores three ways for 5G to accelerate the digital transformation of these types of essential services and workplace activities in the n...
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5G Outlook Series: The Impact of Mobile Technology on the Response to COVID-19
This paper, the first in a series that examines the effects of mobile technology on the response to COVID-19, highlights early examples of 5G technology being used during this time and as...
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Global Future Council on New Network Technologies - 5G: Society’s Essential Innovation Technology
The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on New Network Technologies, during its 2018-2020 term, focused on the benefits to society and the role of partnerships between government...
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5G: The Potential to Transform
COVID-19
New tech infrastructure will help economies recover after COVID-19
5G networks, data centres, artificial intelligence, industrial internet and the Internet of Things played a critical role during the coronavirus crisis and will ensure economic resilience...
5G
Here's how the US can get the best out of 5G
5G has huge economic potential - but unless the US changes its approach, it risks getting left behind.
5G
3 ways to boost innovation in the 5G digital economy
Two-thirds of the global workforce will then use the 5G platform by 2030, encouraging innovation and emerging technologies.
5G
5G is about to change the world in ways we can't even imagine yet
While 3G put the mobile Internet in your hand and 4G gave us mobile broadband, redefining how we interact – 5G will connect everything and everyone
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How 5G and the Internet of Things can create a winning business
New technologies will impact every market and every industry in a way that many of us have not yet begun to consider. Here is how to make the most of it.