After all, more than reputations are at stake as wireless carriers looking for ways to grow top line revenue. The lofty claims about 5G are of course mostly hyperbole, because everyone wants to get excited about a new technology, and it’s human nature to reinforce your own belief about something, especially if you have committed massive sums of financial and social capital. At the same time, there is a vocal minority that is claiming there is nothing special about it, making statements such as “It’s just another ‘G’” or “We don’t need it” because LTE (e.g., the 4G technology) is good enough.Īs is usually the case, the reality will be somewhere in between. It’s hard to read anything in the media without seeing some reference or proclamation about how wonderful things are going to be with 5G for communications, applications, and services. What Will and Won’t Happen With Fifth Generation Cellular.