Where is our money, seemed to be the unframed question posed by many operators at the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, and the answer still seemed to be manana manana. It is true many operators are deriving incremental revenues from 5G, but these are often just crumbs that fail to satisfy the appetite for the more serious remuneration required to return their major investments in 5G spectrum and equipment in a reasonable time. One of the problems was that 5G itself was overhyped at the beginning with early networks delivering little better than 4G and even when they did only some of the time, or in small areas close to base stations. The experience was often either underwhelming…