5G is finally spreading its wings and demonstrating capabilities that go well beyond boosting the mobile broadband data rate. As the 3GPP Release 16 standards are frozen, the next wave of commercial equipment will be able to be deployed to support the long-promised additional benefits of 5G, from ultra-low latency to unlicensed spectrum support to massive M2M connectivity. That, in turn, will enable new use cases. This week’s edition of Wireless Watch examines a few of the areas where enhanced 5G is finally proving itself as a superior solution to its predecessors or WiFi, after the ‘phony war’ of 2019, when operators raced to deploy commercial 5G, but mainly offered, in effect, 4G-plus services. Those will not be enough for…