Yes, 5G Means Faster Downloads To Your Phone – But Thats Just The Beginning

Sponsored For the past 18 months of lockdown, 5G may well have made your life a little easier, allowing you to stream games and movies using its generous bandwidth. However, this is just scratching the surface of what 5G technology means for our work and private lives.

5G is much more than just another cellular network technology. It offers more bandwidth than previous wireless technologies plus it has lower latency and is ideal for massive Machine Type Communications. Combine all this with other world-changing technologies, from AI and autonomous vehicles to high-resolution imaging and, inevitably, the cloud, and you open up some amazing possibilities.

How amazing? To get a deep insight into how 5G is fundamentally changing business and industry, and society at large, you should check out the video Q&A, embedded below, between ZTE Corporation senior vice president Zhang Jianpeng and The Register’s Asia-Pacific editor Simon Sharwood.

Together, they explain how 5G is already helping organisations worldwide reshape their operations. ZTE has deployed 5G in its own smart factories, leading to greater efficiency and decreased levels of defects.

As Zhang explains, the technology is being put to work in transport, powering autonomous vehicles, as well as in the utilities sector, where drones with high resolution video equipment are performing inspections of hard-to-reach infrastructure.

Similarly, the mining industry is being transformed as 5G enables safer operation of heavy equipment in inhospitable locations, while agriculture is using the technology both to operate equipment more safely and accurately and to make better use of land and other scarce resources.

The result, argues Zhang, is not just greater efficiency, but a massive reduction in the number of people in harm’s way. Meanwhile, the technology has already proved its worth in our domestic lives, helping students – and professionals – via online learning throughout the lockdown.

As Jianpeng says, this will all lead to a blurring of the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds.

For this and more, check out this exclusive video Q&A, and you’ll have a much clearer view of the road ahead.

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