The European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) Bram Tullemans was surprised by Faultline’s remark about the emerging 5G-Emerge project coming across as a secretive members-only club. As Program Manager, Tullemans wants to rectify any opacity encountered on our search for information, regarding both the underlying technologies and future business cases that underpin the project described as a “distribution revolution.” We scratched the surface before and during IBC, but even our queries about 5G-Emerge at the EBU’s sizable booth returned blank faces from colleagues. Weeks later, we have our guy. Conceived over summer this year, a consortium of 20 technology companies with deep experience in the satellite industry decided to rally around 5G once and for all as a convergence technology. Superior speeds,…