The 5G commitments are piling up, even with no standards yet, and so are the trials which are being labelled ‘5G’ – but which usually consist of just one or two possible components of that multi-faceted future platform, such as millimeter wave spectrum or massive MIMO antennas. Most of these trials and demonstrations focus on superfast mobile broadband speeds, continuing with the same focus as the run-up to 3G and 4G. Yet increasingly, when operators talk about their real world plans for 2020 and beyond, traditional mobile broadband is the last thing on their mind. The investment in 5G, however it ends up looking, will only be justified by a network which can support a wide range of use cases…