The consumer smartphone market was the first market to be disrupted by 5G. Today, wireless providers, smartphone vendors, and app developers are already providing a wide variety of 5G-based products and services, and beginning to make the easily available, super-fast personal connectivity promised in their advertisements a reality for consumers.
However, 5G’s faster data speeds, lower latency, ability to be “sliced” into private cellular networks, and other advancements are now beginning to be felt beyond the consumer market. Three commercial markets in particular — live media streaming, large facility networks, and first responder communications — are in the process or on the cusp of being transformed by 5G.
