Will 5G bring Samsung the network infrastructure success which has largely eluded it outside of its home country? Samsung was part of a group of network equipment vendors – also including NEC and Motorola – which missed out on the W-CDMA 3G market, except in a few niches. All these companies had plans to seize share back from the 3G giants when 4G came along. Motorola and Samsung built on their strong CDMA bases and focused heavily on WiMAX, in the hope that – as in the 3G world – there would be a powerful alternative to the main 3GPP platform, which they could control. That failed when LTE asserted its dominance. Motorola faded back into its public safety comfort…