The deployment of 5G promises to link everything from vehicles to household devices but will require prodigious investment and the telecoms industry is trying to agree on if and how 5G can facilitate enough innovations to be profitable.
Luca de Meo, chief executive of Volkswagen-owned SEAT, said applications were currently “pretty limited”, before unveiling what he described as Europe’s first 5G-connected concept car at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.