Comment by notlukesky

When 3G first came out it was a disaster for most carriers. The phones were buggy and hard to come by. More importantly there was no compelling reason to use data from your phone till the iPhone and then Android appeared. The previous generation of “smartphones” (like Symbian and NTT Docomo imode) tried to dumb and water down the Internet. 5G will present similar problems in the early stages. There are not enough compelling applications for the increase in bandwidth now, but there sure will be later on. So I don’t see a race to it now. It’s the next evolution in the cycle of faster speed.