If 5G is to deliver on any of its large promises, it will have to signal the end of ‘one size fits all’ for wireless networks. The latest in the long string of international 5G projects, launched by the European Union’s PPP (public-private partnership), has this firmly in its sights, which gives cause for optimism that it will deliver something useful. The initiative has one of the tongue-twisting names beloved of the EU – 5G Novel Radio Multiservice adaptive network Architecture – but at least this comes with a neat acronym, NORMA – although the lower case ‘adaptive’ sadly downplays the most important world in the title. A network that can adapt to many services and usage patterns, some of…