Last week saw a virtual staging of the annual 5G World event, and one of the key themes of the conference was the impact of industrial use cases on the mobile operator business model – whether that operator would be a traditional MNO, or a new entrant. The rise of alternative deployers of 5G, to meet specialized vertical industry requirements, will be an important feature of the 5G landscape from 2020 onwards. It is not a new idea of course – industrial MVNOs, proprietary private network operators and enterprises themselves have all, in the past, sought to roll out and manage wireless infrastructure to support more than generic mobile broadband for enterprise users. Instead, these networks were optimized for the…