5G Skeptic

Tim Bray, writing in a blog post: When I was working at AWS, around 2017 we started getting excited pitches from companies who wanted to be part of the 5G build-out, saying that obviously there'd be lots of opportunities for public-cloud providers. But I never walked away convinced. Either I didn't believe the supposed customers really needed what 5G offered, or I didn't believe the opportunity was anywhere near big enough to justify the trillion-dollar build-out investment. Six years later, I still don't. This is a report on a little online survey I ran, looking for actual real-world 5G impact to see if I was wrong.

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