The diversity of 5G’s capabilities has always been its great differentiator against previous mobile generations, with the potential to support a huge variety of different connectivity requirements for multiple industries and applications. During the first wave of 5G launches, this versatility remained a promise rather than a reality. Only one point of the famous NGMN use case triangle was clearly visible – enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), but little evidence of massive machine-type communication (mMTC) or ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC). With the finalization of Release 16 of the 3GPP standards last year, and the start of work on Release 17, at least the base specifications were in place to allow radio networks to be optimized for non-broadband capabilities. But implementation…