What Does 5G Change for Users?

What is the transformative potential of 5G? In this episode, Joshua Ness, Emerging Technology Director and former Senior Manager at Verizon 5G Labs emphasizes that 5G represents the next evolution in telecommunications, completely reimagining networks for enhanced connectivity. With its ultra reliability, low latency and high bandwidth, 5G opens up possibilities for businesses and organizations to maximize efficiency, reduce costs and explore new ways of operating.

In this minisode, Joshua Ness discusses leveraging advanced connectivity, particularly 5G, to bridge the digital divide. Strategies involve targeted 5G deployments, ensuring equitable access to underrepresented areas such as educational institutions, museums, rural areas and schools.

Did you know that 5G has the ability to allocate dedicated slices of bandwidth in the airwaves and network for various specific uses? Joshua Ness explains this technology and its potential to greatly benefit first responders by ensuring reliable connectivity, and its ability to open opportunities for tailored connectivity solutions across sectors like defense, gaming, and consumer applications, thus optimizing performance and user experiences.

Challenging our conventional understanding of phones and their limitations, Joshua Ness questions how we truly interact with these devices – looking at them, listening, talking, touching – and suggests breaking down these components for a more dynamic experience. Watch this video of Ness exploring emerging technologies like head-mounted displays for augmented and virtual reality and emphasizing the convergence of connectivity, devices, and applications.