The most meaningful benefits of 5G have been slow to harvest, as the divide between 5G non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) created a tension that has delayed the intended benefits of 5G SA. In practice, NSA is often a re-dressing of 4G LTE and does not offer the capabilities that 5G has promised. But recently we have seen examples of the improved performance of 5G SA, which provides hope for some of these advancements to finally be realized. Australian operator Optus has run a pilot on its network using Ericsson’s Interference Sensing technology – a beamforming method to maximize signal energy and avoid interference, and ultimately improve throughput. Interference Sensing is a software feature, part of the vendor’s Massive MIMO…