B2B Could Drive 5G Profitability, Says New Street

Speakers made clear at a recent New Street conference that business-to-business innovation will be important to making 5G profitable for providers, the firm's James Ratzer told investors Monday. Experts “were unanimous in the view that the pace of 5G B2B innovation has stepped up significantly, with a thousand flowers set to bloom across a huge range of vertical markets, end-user applications and value chain configurations,” he said: “This is important if 5G is to become more than just an enabler of cheap capacity at higher connection speeds.”