Casual observers might have been surprised by the prominence given to voice at the recent 5G Core Summit in Bangkok, hosted by Huawei and Informa Tech. After all, voice has long been relegated in favor of asynchronous communications such as texting, email and social media and many consumers almost actively avoid it when they can, except for more intimate communications at one level or participation in business conferences on platforms such as Zoom and Teams on the other. Yet in 5G, voice is now pulling some of these threads back together as new interactive and immersive features come into play, Huawei contends. At the Summit, the role of what Huawei has christened ‘5.5G Core’, as an enabler of enhanced voice…