Vodafone and Ericsson trial the best thing since sliced bread

Right now you only use networks in one big lump, but a collaboration between UK operator Vodafone and Swedish kit vendor Ericsson seeks to split into manageable slices.
They completed a trial in a Vodafone lab, using Ericsson-built 5G Standalone containerised core architecture, which they claim was the first time 5G network slicing with on-demand quality of service control had been done in the UK. Apparently it took just 30 minutes to create a special slice of the network optimised for a VR use-