Special Report: 5G broadcast Cellular and broadcast ready to dock at last under 5G Green shoots of convergence are at last breaking out between cellular and TV broadcast services after two decades of relative antagonism fueled by perceptions among providers of the latter that the mobile industry was just after stealing its terrestrial spectrum. Such fears were understandable given that successive World Radio Conferences (WRC) handed mobile operators spectrum previously held by terrestrial broadcasters and supposedly liberated by switch over from analogue to more efficient digital transmission. This led to representative bodies such as the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) lobbying governments and regulators hard on behalf of their members, without that much success. Broadcasters themselves, especially traditional public service…