Its Time To Approach 5G2B Differently!

There is a growing feeling that the measure of the success of 5G will be inextricably linked to how it helps to transform the capabilities of vertical industries. Every industry from manufacturing to health to automotive has intense activity underway on how it can best make use of 5G to drive its own industry transformation. And telcos are intimately engaged in these discussions. From manufacturing uses case to smart healthcare, telcos are engaging with vertical industries to see just where their bag of tricks can help these new use cases become viable.

Pretty much everyone also gets the general concept that these new services will only come to market through intelligent cooperation across wide ecosystems. The telcos bring one set of capabilities to this ecosystem, the cloud hyperscale’s bring another set of capabilities (both complimentary and competing). Beyond this, there are a huge range of cross-industry specialists in everything from systems integration to digital twinning, to AI, to video analytics that have an important role to play in these new ecosystems.

But despite this growing clarity, two of the biggest issues I perceive are:

1. The lack of a clear shared understanding how to think about these new ecosystemsand how…