Don’t waste time looking for 5G’s killer app, says Ekholm Don’t waste time looking for a 5G killer app, was the message from Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm, talking to the 2020 GTI Summit (held online). While he believes the next three years will be “critical in determining the 5G landscape”, he added: “By the time we identify the killer app, it will actually be too late.” He gave the example that operators and vendors spent a lot of time and money looking for 4G’s killer app, but “were not able to envisage a world where a ride-hailing app would be the normal way of ordering transportation”. “Early adopters of 4G in China actually came to dominate the world of the app economy…