It might be just a coincidence, but at the time of this writing, members of the 3GPP are packing for Lisbon to vote on the first phase of what will be the new 5G standard. At the same time, legislators in Washington are getting set to vote to dismantle net neutrality regulations. The shared thread is that the fundamental premise of 5G is that not every service is equal: Instead, it pulls every technological trick in the book to optimize the use of spectrum and core network capacity to provide the right service to the right user for the right application.
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