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CONTENTS

04 05
Introduction: Overcoming the Edge Security
Rethinking Revenue Opportunities Reality of Real 5G
for 5G

08 11
5G Revenue Opportunities for Standalone 5G – Service Provider
Telcos and Enterprises Revenues will be Driven by
Network-embedded Services

13 15
Rethinking the Telco of the Future How 5G will Enable Virtual Reality
‘Storyliving’

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Content Spotlight

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 eBook: Rethinking Revenue Opportunities for 5G
Introduction
Rethinking Revenue
Opportunities for 5G
E nterprises and service providers potentially
have a lot to gain from 5G, with the
opportunity to dedicate specific technology
services to network slices; deliver faster and
higher-quality AR/VR gaming services; and
provide a more secure, more reliable mobile
experience for customers.
In this edition of The 5G Exchange E-Book,
we’ll examine the benefits and challenges to
delivering secure 5G, how service providers
and enterprises can utilize 5G to tap new
revenue streams and improve the customer
experience and how service providers can
rethink their business models to make the most
of all 5G has to offer.
“The reality is that the most successful 5G use
cases have likely not even been thought of
yet, and the web-scale mentality of ‘try fast,
fail fast, learn fast’ will be very applicable to a
successful service provider’s approach to 5G,”
writes Niall Norton, CEO of Openet, in The 5G
Exchange blog, “Rethinking the telco of the
future.”
Read on to hear from select authors on new
revenue opportunities and business models
for 5G.
Kelsey Kusterer Ziser
5G Exchange Curator
The 5G Exchange
Kelsey Kusterer Ziser is a senior editor covering
SD-WAN deployments at Light Reading. In addition,
as curator at the 5G Exchange, Kelsey acts as
gatekeeper for all content submitted to Light Reading’s
authoritative resource of vetted 5G-related information
provided by the industry. She also plays an important
role in developing Light Reading’s events program.
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Overcoming the Edge Security
Reality of Real 5G
W Bad Actors Will Exploit 5G
hile 5G adoption is surging, not all 5G is created
equal. Coverage comes at either low-/mid-band
or millimeter wave, and some providers even tout
“nationwide” coverage that can’t live up to its name. To
be clear, this discussion focuses on “real” 5G, which is
on its way to powering everything from manufacturing
and energy grids to autonomous vehicles and
consumer brands.
With all the benefits it brings, 5G could also overwhelm
the edges of the network – and the necessary security
solutions could inadvertently create bottlenecks.
Enabling applications to perform at 5G speeds to
ensure expected user experience is one thing, but
ensuring that this happens securely, across more
network access points than ever before, presents
an entirely new set of very serious challenges.
Organizations need to be prepared today with stronger
security foundations.
Massive Potential
As of December 2020, there were 229 million 5G
subscriptions globally, and this number is expected
to reach 236 million by the end of the year, according
to the analysts at Omdia. 5G holds the potential
for mobile network operators (MNOs) to deliver a
whole new slate of value-added enterprise services,
generating new revenue streams and driving growth.
For medium-to-large enterprises across various
industries and verticals, harnessing 5G technology
and capabilities will further help to increase efficiency,
automation, safety, sustainability and innovation in
general.
Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash
However, just like legitimate enterprises, cybercriminals
will certainly also look to leverage the power of 5G.
While all of these edges are interconnected, many
organizations have focused on performance and digital
transformation to the detriment of centralized visibility
and unified control. Understandably, bad actors are
looking to evolve their attacks by targeting these
environments and will look to harness the speed and
scale that 5G will make possible.
New opportunities for more advanced threats will arise
as bad actors compromise and leverage 5G-enabled
devices. Cybercriminals are making progress toward
developing and deploying swarm-based attacks. These
attacks use hijacked devices divided into subgroups,
each with specialized skills. They target networks or
devices as an integrated system and share intelligence
in real time to refine their attack as it is happening.
Swarm technologies need large amounts of processing
power to enable individual swarmbots and to efficiently
share information in a bot swarm. This allows them to
rapidly discover, share and correlate vulnerabilities and
then switch their attack methods to better exploit their
discoveries.
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Overcoming the Edge Security Reality of Real 5G...cont’d

Security Must Adapt A More Secure Edge

There are five elements organizations need to consider
to create an adaptive security strategy for 5G.
1. Understand the potential impacts: As with any
new and significant technology, organizations need
to understand 5G’s impact on their overall security
posture. The use of 5G services and technologies will
impact the attack surface, the attack vectors and the
very nature of attacks. They need to understand where
the MNO’s security responsibility begins and ends and
what their part is – akin to the shared model in public
clouds. The potential benefits of 5G will overcome
the security concerns associated with it if enterprises
know what those concerns are and what is required to
mitigate them.
2. IT must carefully evaluate the security issues: If
5G is to be the game changer everyone is expecting it
to be, what is the role of security in 5G’s adoption and
penetration in the business market? Does 5G have an
acceptable set of built-in security capabilities to protect
itself and the enterprise customers it serves? Or is an
additional layer of security required to capture the 5G
business market?
3. New controls are needed: Though 5G offers
inherent security capabilities, these alone should not
and must not be considered the only line of defense
against 5G infrastructure and services misuse, cyber
threats and risks. An additional layer of security visibility
and control is necessary.
As the promise of 5G continues to roll out toward
reality, security concerns abound. Opportunistic
cybercriminals are waiting to exploit the vulnerabilities
inherent in 5G, using its speed and scale to their
advantage. But ironically, standard security measures
are likely to create latency at the edge. To make
the most of 5G’s potential, organizations need to
understand the risks it brings and adapt their security
accordingly. The five elements noted above will help
enterprises create a secure 5G environment that
delivers on its promises.
Jonathan Nguyen-Duy
VP, Global Field CISO Team
Fortinet
Jonathan leads strategy and service relationship
programs at Fortinet where he focuses on emerging
technologies and partnerships. With extensive
experience working with global enterprises and
nation-states, Jonathan is responsible for developing
innovative security solutions addressing the challenges
of digital transformation – from the IoT edge to the
cloud.

4. Ensure that your security controls don’t outweigh

the benefits of 5G: For those unprepared, the ability
of applications to access information will slow greatly,
driving serious latency issues and obliterating the
user experience for customers and employees alike.
That’s just the start of the challenge. Adding adequate
security that protects users and mission-critical
information could easily create bottlenecks within
bottlenecks.

5. Converged networking and security can address

these changing needs: If networks weave security
into their core, they will be able to expand and adapt
to digital innovations with ease and do so at levels
that 5G requires. Converging networking and security
creates a security strategy that is highly flexible and
adaptive.

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5G Revenue Opportunities for
Telcos and Enterprises
T
he telecom industry has been at the helm of growth
and development on a global scale. In addition,
this industry has experience substantial change
concerning technology as well as business models.
The introduction of technologies like mobile phones
and cellular communication in the 1990s, and the
Internet revolution was well handled by the industry
players – they were quick to adapt and maintain their
revenue streams.
However, the Over-the-Top (OTT) service providers
like WhatsApp, G-Pay and Amazon Prime have posed
a considerable challenge to the revenues of service
providers.
In response to growing competition, the telecom
industry is looking at different avenues to reclaim the
past glory that it enjoyed before the rise of the OTT
platforms. In fact, recent Gartner reports have indicated
that infrastructure investments in 5G are expected
to generate immense revenues and resurrect the
standing of the service providers.
Here, we will explore the current challenges and how
creating new and improved revenue models help
redefine service providers’ business models.
The challenge
One major threat to telecom service provider revenues
stems from the fact that the existing OTT apps do not
contribute directly to the revenues of these operators.
On the other hand, these OTT applications depend
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
considerably on the telecom infrastructure to deliver
their services to end customers.
In addition, many OTT services are capable of
replacing the services offered by telecom service
providers, such as messaging applications that have
largely replaced traditional SMS services. As most of
these services use the Internet to communicate, the
service providers continue to enjoy revenues from
the use of Internet services and data packets transfer.
However, this is severely impacting their revenues that
were earlier generated heavily from their core services
like international calling and text messaging.
Three reasons why OTT continues to be popular
 ost: The OTT services are delivered at bare minimum
C
costs. In fact, some do not attract any direct costs
at all. These applications perform just as well as the
core services offered by service providers but without
additional costs such as connectivity.
Abilities: Standard services like texting or SMS
have certain limitations in comparison to feature-rich
messaging apps like WhatsApp. Combined with the
low cost, this is a major advantage that OTT platforms
have over the telecom service providers.
 ase of use and convenience: Users are
E
communicating and sharing more than ever before.
And this is mainly due to the above two features of
OTT applications. They are easy to use and can be
adopted irrespective of the service provider you are
with.
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5G Revenue Opportunities...cont’d
The Way Forward
Considering the nature of the OTT platforms and
applications, there is little surprise that the revenues
of service providers have been severely impacted in
the last five years. The only way forward is for these
entities to modify the way they function and adapt to
the changing times in order to reclaim their past glory.
In other words, it is time to become proactive and take
the bull by its horns.
Popularly addressed as the ‘4th revival’ the 5G is
expected to launch the 4th industrial revolution. 5G
networks have finally been launched by most countries
and service providers are looking at harnessing this
next-gen technology for increasing their revenues.
The global 5G equipment market alone has grown
tremendously in the last 5 years. However, service
providers cannot expect customers to pay significantly
more for faster connectivity. Therefore, this is not a
viable model to improve bottom line revenues.
What can 5G do Differently than 4G?
Service providers must look beyond the current
applications and business models of 4G and take more
innovative approaches to use 5G for their business
benefits. Let us take a look at how 5G can enable
service providers to offer better services than their
customer’s expectations.
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
High-latency services can undermine the entire
gaming experience, especially for VR headset users.
In fact, continuous latencies between action and
response time can result in severe motion sickness.
5G’s marginal latencies can help overcome this
critical problem in the gaming industry making it an
ideal platform for the industry. The service providers
must not miss out on this crucial revenue sharing
opportunity with OTT platforms hoping to deliver AR/
VR experiences on the 5G backbone.
Carrier-grade Connectivity Delivered via
Bespoke Model
Unlike its predecessors, 5G brings much more to the
table than just network performance improvements. As
a platform that is highly ‘connected,’ 5G is capable of
enabling service providers to offer well-defined SLAs
and QoS for enhanced performance.
Dedicated Services
Efficient network slicing is an excellent benefit of
the new 5G technology. Each virtual slice is an
isolated instance and is programmed to work on a
separate architecture with networking provisioning
requirements.
This will enable service providers to offer virtual
networks that are customized to fulfill the enterprise’s
requirements. But, most importantly, slicing and
creating visual networks also translates into reduced
investments in the physical infrastructure. All of this,
while tremendously increasing the variety of services
that can be extended to the end customers.
Market-driven Strategy
It is time for enterprises to shift the focus on the
customers and users rather than the features of the
product. Unless you are offering an exclusive product,
it is more important to place the interest of the
customer before the attributes of your offering.
Cloud-computing entities and global e-commerce
players have transitioned into industries other than
their core businesses. Therefore, service providers
must listen to the needs of their enterprise customers
to remain in the game. 5G is proving to be an excellent
platform for translating the requirements of large
customers into deliverable products and services.
New and Evolving Technologies
Carriers and service providers certainly stand to
benefit from newer technologies and services models
emanating from 5G technology. And to reap these
benefits, businesses must look at creating user-friendly
platforms that can compete with providers of public as
well as private clouds.
Secondly, service providers must look at offering turn-
key solutions, including professional services. The
services and platforms must be efficient, easy to install,
setup and operate, and must be capable of scaling up
as business requirements increase. Service providers
can also incorporate monitoring and provisioning tools
that promote self-service.
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5G Revenue Opportunities...cont’d
Addressing Customer Requirements
The easiest way to address customer requirements is
by adapting to their respective industry. In other words,
to understand and discern customer requirements
apart from network connectivity. These could include
security services, customized latency requirements,
global or local spread of the network, monitoring or
management tools, speedier issue response and
resolutions, etc.
Final Word
Faster speeds are not an assured indicator of a
simultaneous increase in revenues for service
providers. However, 5G is highly capable of creating
newer growth opportunities for all businesses across
industries. This is also true for telecom service
providers that have been facing immense competition
from the increasing popularity of OTT platforms and
services over the last five years. While blocking these
services is not a wise strategy, it is high time that
service providers innovate and adopt technologies like
small cells and provide competitive platforms catering
to legacy, as well as future, systems.
Piyush Jain
Global Services Architect
Ciena
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Standalone 5G – Service Provider
Revenues will be Driven by
Network-embedded Services
D
espite all the distraction presented by COVID-19,
the second half of 2020 was significant in terms
of accelerating 5G’s commercial potential. In the
US, T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon were ramping up 5G.
In the UK, Vodafone switched on a small part of its
standalone 5G network and in Japan, Rakuten made its
own unique advancements in building a greenfield 5G
network.
However, it remains early days for commercially
available standalone 5G network services – it is
expected these will start to arrive towards the end of
2021. This is great news for global telecom service
providers, because the revenue potential from
enterprise-grade standalone 5G services far exceeds
those of non-standalone. Furthermore, unlike so-called
OTT services in the past, telecom service providers can
provide network-embedded services into standalone
5G offers and can’t be disintermediated and relegated
to only providing connectivity.
Embedded value
Embedded network services are services that rely on
the technological capabilities within the network to
offer guaranteed quality of service, strong levels of
reliable bandwidth and optimal levels of security. These
services require the extra low latency capabilities of
5G created and guaranteed by network slicing, which
requires standalone 5G infrastructure and a dedicated
network transport layer. In a true standalone network
environment, 5G can achieve download speeds
of between 10 Gbit/s and 50 Gbit/s and provide
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash
millisecond latency. These powerful capabilities have
countless possibilities when it comes to monetizable
use cases for telecom service providers. These
range from mobile cloud gaming, to remote surgery
in hospitals, to autonomous cars, to supporting
fully automated robotic production lines in smart
manufacturing environments.
Some of these use cases are mission critical –
instances like remote surgery in hospitals where
guaranteed low latency is literally a matter of life or
death. Required levels of throughput must therefore be
guaranteed to be viable and healthcare organizations
will pay a premium for such assurances. The same
is true for automotive companies or local authorities
looking to safeguard roads with the launch of
autonomous vehicles. Even mobile cloud gaming will
carry a premium in a consumer setting. A recent study
by Ribbon Communications proved that hardcore
gamers would pay more for 5G if it could guarantee a
better playing experience – the majority (60%) would
pay at least 50% more than they’re paying today. That
is a significant increase for telecom service providers
to contemplate.
With great potential comes greater
complexity
These use cases can mean the introduction of tiered
pricing for 5G embedded network services. Some
service providers in the UK, Switzerland and Finland
already sell 5G based on speed tiers. The thinking
here is that people may not know how much data
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Standalone 5G...cont’d
they’re using, but they will notice different speeds.
In an enterprise setting, this means telecom service
providers charging more for premium quality of
experience (QoE) courtesy of bespoke SLAs. Tiered
pricing for embedded network services brings
additional complexity to telecom service providers
to not only launch new services, but also charge
appropriately for them. We may also see service
providers launch specific offers, e.g. a working from
home offer with guaranteed quality of service, or a 5G
gaming offer with, say, Nintendo or Microsoft, backed
by consumer speed guarantees and wholesales
(gaming partner) SLKs. While having plenty of
addressable use cases to monetize is good in terms
of potential ROI, it creates challenges in terms of
supporting and launching them all concurrently.
The 5G service reality facing telecom service providers
is that there will be more devices and services to
support, with new chargeable elements to parts of
these services, more network functions to manage,
new business models to contemplate and multiple
partners to manage as transparently as possible. This
requires connecting thousands of offers with countless
network functions to offer services on demand. It also
needs dynamic capacity allocation on a network slice-
by-slice basis. Doing all this seamlessly to effectively
monetize each service requires the creation of a value
plan – a bridge between the 5G network and the IT
and business functions in a service provider.
Integrating 5G policy and charging functions in a 5G
value plan into the service catalogue in BSS, and also
the 5G networks, will ensure that service providers
can quickly develop and monetize new 5G services
where the quality of the customer experience is a
central part of the overall offer. Standalone 5G will
herald an unprecedented range of use case and
services. Many of these new services will be network
embedded services where the service provider cannot
be pushed aside to be a dumb pipe provider, but will
instead take center stage in the creation, development,
monetization and management of 5G services.
Martin Morgan
VP Marketing
Openet
Martin Morgan is the VP of Marketing at Openet.
With 30 years’ experience in mobile communications
software, Martin has worked in mobile since the early
days of the industry. He’s ran the marketing teams
for several BSS companies and served on trade
association and company boards.
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Rethinking the Telco of the Future
T
he emergence of network embedded services,
network slicing capabilities and the ability to spin
up individual sub-networks with their own Quality
of Service (QoS) and tailored service experiences will
see 5G become a key strategic business enabler. It
will also provide telecoms industry with the overhaul it
desperately needs.
With 5G, service providers have the opportunity to
rethink and reshape their business models to succeed
in an ecosystem driven by the demand for rich data
services. The future for service providers could include
delivering high ARPU services to millions of consumers,
and just as profitably serving low ARPU services to
trillions of devices. 5G enables the economics of this
strange new market place.
The telecoms industry now finds itself at a crucial
inflexion point. In the next 12 to 18 months, 5G will
mature quickly and service providers will be keen to
cash in on 5G infrastructure investments and years
of planning. But a change in mindset will be critical.
Service providers will need to go beyond connectivity
and adapt to play a central role in delivering the value
of the 5G network. What 5G will be is a platform for
telco reinvention.
New Use Cases, New Markets and New
Service Provider Value
5G’s potential is huge and many of us have likely lost
count of the numerous use cases that it may deliver. As
5G continues to roll out rapidly, service providers are
Photo by Jon Flobrant on Unsplash.
defining their strategic positions from which use cases
will follow. Primarily, the enterprise market has received
the most attention with many in the industry arguing it
will represent the greatest portion of 5G value.
Already we’re seeing 5G excitement building in
advanced manufacturing settings. This year, industrial
and manufacturing giants like Ford UK, Lufthansa and
Toyota have all announced plans to work with partners
on the development of their own private 5G networks.
Enterprise players are bullish about accelerating their
adoption of these technologies as the promise of 5G
looks set to deliver improvements this sector has been
crying out for.
Service providers must embrace proudly and loudly
the value they can offer here. There will be a gap in the
knowledge that service providers can help bridge to
support enterprise leaders in achieving their ambitions
for 5G. Service providers can focus in on manufacturing
settings, for example, to provide end-to-end offerings
as the principle provider. This may take the shape of
supplying services such as high-definition cameras to
a car manufacturer that requires 5G and ultra-reliable
low latency communications (URLLC) on a production
line. High-definition images can be processed in real
time with near-zero latency to automatically inspect the
quality of products.
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Rethinking the Telco of the Future...cont’d

Improve Subscriber Relationships Service Providers Must Step Out of Their

5G isn’t only an enterprise play, however. In the
consumer world, where content is king, service
Comfort Zone
The reality is that the most successful 5G use cases
providers must leverage 5G to play a more active role
have likely not even been thought of yet, and the
in the 5G value chain by selling services direct to their
web-scale mentality of ‘try fast, fail fast, learn fast’ will
customers. Pop-up, perhaps self-service designed and
be very applicable to a successful service provider’s
tailored network experiences for content providers to
approach to 5G.
easily access could provide operators with an easier
and more profitable access to the end-customers. 5G is a much more sophisticated technology than any
There is also the opportunity for 5G to connect those of the previous “G”’s – meaning that there are far more
hardest to reach consumers, with 5G Fixed Wireless controllable service characteristics that can be shaped
Access being rolled out as an alternative to fixed line on 5G networks. Automation and orchestration will
broadband connections. allow these multiple experience factors to be tailored
to shape the service environments much faster and
Another exciting 5G consumer use case is cloud
more cheaply than ever before. Cloud will mean no
gaming. In the gaming world, low latency is critical
capacity constraints will limit success. All of these
to high performance, and the speeds and enhanced
factors combined will lower the barriers to entry for
connectivity capabilities of 5G are a promising reality
enterprises and entrepreneurs to connect with their
for gamers. 5G has the potential to augment poorly
target audiences.
performing home broadband connections, and it’s a
service that many gamers are willing to pay for. The need has never been greater for service providers
to revamp their business culture around open agile
In some circumstances, 5G routers may even replace
systems to quickly adopt and adapt to these new
their fiber counterparts. In Korea, SK Telecom has
revenue opportunities. If they do, telecoms service
partnered with Microsoft to bring mobile cloud gaming
providers will be empowered to enter entirely new
to its subscribers, recognizing the opportunity to attract
domains, grow revenues through digital first sub-
new customers as well as generate new revenue from
brands, deliver content bundling for the multi-media
the existing customer base.
obsessed consumer and even launch non-telco
Service providers also have an opportunity with 5G to services such as financial services and low-latency
tackle long standing issues with subscriber churn. By cloud gaming.
adding value to existing subscriber contacts through
5G home broadband, cloud gaming services, and
potentially even augmented reality experiences,
service providers will greatly improve customer
retention. Niall Norton
Chief Executive Officer
Openet

Niall joined Openet in March 2004 as CFO before

becoming CEO in 2006. A winner of the European
Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012 and the Ernst and
Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011, Niall was voted
by Telecoms Business Review as one of the Top 100
most influential people in global telecoms in 2017. Prior
to joining Openet, he served as CFO of O2 Ireland
from 2001 to 2004.

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How 5G will Enable Virtual Reality
‘Storyliving’
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e are on the verge of a digital content revolution.
The mass adoption of immersive technologies
stands to mirror or even overshadow earlier
innovation eras in technology and communications.
The rise of 5G, edge computing, and Virtual Reality (VR)
will enable the next stage of the experience evolution.
VR is a computer-generated, simulated experience
that places users in immersive 3D environments. With
current 4G technologies, people face lagging when
streaming content from their smartphone. But with the
new-network capacity for 5G, creatives and consumers
can swap the linear video or song for an entire
interactive virtual world. Current multi-user networked
VR experiences, or social VR, are limited to low-poly, or
low graphic, designs.
Attempting to stream multi-user high-quality VR
experiences on current 4G capabilities is nearly
impossible. I sometimes struggle to get a 1080p
HD video to load on my phone and I cannot fathom
streaming a full VR experience with current 4G
limitations. Even Augmented Reality (AR), which
overlays digital elements into a physical world, is data
intensive. As Forbes reports, “one minute of AR will
consume 33 times more traffic than one minute of
480p video.”
5G brings lower latency, or a faster way for data
to transfer between networks and devices. An
ABI Research study commissioned by Qualcomm
predicts that 5G will decrease latency by 10X.
Lower latency enables higher data rates, which
means VR experiences will be streamed in real time,
Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash.
rather than downloaded beforehand. Additionally,
the advancement edge-computing, a distributed
computing framework decentralizing data processing,
means consumers will have smaller and thinner
devices.
Streaming immersive experiences require a lot of data
to be processed. With low latency, incredible speed,
and massive capacity, 5G and edge-computing will be
game changing for VR. The higher throughput of 5G
will enable users to stream instant VR content from the
cloud. Not only will content load faster, but developers
will not be as tied down by current game-engine to
headset optimization limitations. 5G will enable the
next level of interconnected, immersive experiences.
Developers and designers will soon have an entirely
new canvas to create their dream experiences.
Strapped in our VR headsets (or thinner smart glasses
wearables), information, objects, and people will be all
around us. Instead of passively staring at the screen
or waiting for environments to load, VR users will be
engaged in the next era of content consumption:
“storyliving” rather than storytelling.
Elena Piech
Marketing Manager
The Glimpse Group
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Verizon Keeps mmWave 5G on Expensive Business Plans Verizon Business

FCC Votes to Approve 5G Fund for Rural America FCC

T-Mobile to Bow to Advertising Arbiter’s Findings in 5G Ads BBB National Programs

Mobilities to Add mmWave 5G to T-Mobile Arena Mobilitie

FCC, USAID Team for Open, Secure 5G Infrastructure FCC

AT&T, Cisco Tout IoT Partnership for 5G AT&T

Nokia to use Qualcomm Chips for Indoor 5G Nokia

C Spire Launches 5G Just in Time for iPhone 12 C Spire

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