Could 5G be more than 90% code from open source origins? The idea is shocking to the closed world of mobile technology, but it was posed by a research leader from no more subversive a company than Huawei. Peter Ashwood-Smith, leader of IP research at Huawei Canada and chair of the ITU’s fixed line 5G focus group, put the question to a public workshop at which the ITU and NGMN Alliance were exploring how the 5G standards process should embrace open source. That this discussion was being held at all shows how much the mobile landscape has shifted since 4G standards were being set. That does not mean that things will change dramatically in the world of 3GPP technologies, however.…