“Today, if you talk to anyone in the telco industry, they will tell you that the new 5G network should be able to support three major segments — smartphones, massively connected devices and ultra-low latency service,” he says.
SINGAPORE (May 27): The wireless fifth generation (5G) network has more to offer than just cellular communication for smartphones, and many telecommunication players are exploring what else it can enable, according to StarHub chief technology officer Chong Siew Loong.
“When 3GPP (the Third Generation Partnership Project) started working on defining the 5G network, one thing they were very clear about was that 5G cannot be serving smartphone devices only,” he tells The Edge in an interview at the Invest Asia 2019 conference in Singapore, which was organised by Maybank.
