Mobile World Congress, given its location, might traditionally be dominated by the European operators, but even European giants like Nokia were acknowledging that 5G will be driven, in its early years, by other regions, notably the USA, China and south east Asia. In the wake of the Winter Olympics in South Korea, KT was able to claim the prize for the first commercial 5G service, even if it was limited in time and space to a single event and was pre-standard, and came with some very mixed reports about actual performance in Pyeongchang. Nevertheless, KT claimed its system, which consisted of 22 5G links over 10 sites, delivered 3,800 terabytes of data during the two-week games, and reached peak speeds…