5G: Are we there yet?

Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Diana Pani, Director of R&D, and Bob Olesen, Senior Director, Engineering at InterDigital look at some of the hype factors surrounding 5G. 
As many of us expected, 2018 has been the year of 5G operator announcements. In the weeks leading up to Mobile World Congress, the media was awash with trials and claims—from KT, Qualcomm and Samsung achieving m