A 5G sign is seen inside the Xiaomi booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
BARCELONA: For the telecoms industry, the task of launching 5G services is a lot like going the wrong way on the moving walkways that ferry delegates around the vast Barcelona fairground that hosts the Mobile World Congress.
Operators are striding towards a future with data speeds up to 100 times faster than 4G networks and billions of connected devices to help run homes, offices, factories and cities – creating a seemingly limitless opportunity for an industry now hamstrung by the smartphone market's saturation.
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