Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 saw slightly reduced visitor numbers compared with 2017’s event (about 107,000), but the same levels of hyper-activity and downright hype. 5G was perhaps less of a theme than it was last year, even though there were real standards and use cases to discuss this time, and even the first live consumer demonstrations at the Korean Winter Olympics. The relatively decline of 5G hype reflected a maturing of the industry’s viewpoint as deployments come closer – that the next generation networks will not be just about a radio upgrade or a new iPhone, but will need to entail a complete transformation of architectures and business models to justify the investment. So, MWC is far less cellular…