Europe pulls together a plan for 5G – carved mostly from dreams

The love-in that is the annual Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona has focused squarely on the mass hysteria surrounding the creation of an all-encompassing 5G network which will solve the ills of all cellular participants. How likely is that? We have already covered the technology directions of a variety of vendors as they prepared for the show – all puling in slightly different directions and yesterday it was the turn of the European Commission, which fronted an inaugural 5G vision in a paper which “explained” 5G and talked about the 5G Public Private Partnership (5GPPP) and how it would solve every radio problem known to man – all within 5 years. The whiff of hysteria that the industry is…