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5G Entrepreneurs Creating Billion-Dollar Businesses
Within the next five years
New multibillion-dollar businesses will appear that didn’t exist before due to 5G wireless technology. Because of this, many industries will either be agile, reacting to an ever-increasing number of 5G innovators disrupting their industry, or they will be anticipatory innovators and use the predictability of 5G capabilities to become the disruptor.
The first generation (1G) of wireless came with the introduction of cell phones constrained to phone calls and high-level executives. The second generation (2G) gave us better call quality for wireless phones and offered a new capability for text messaging via SMS. The third generation (3G) facilitated mobile internet browsing and early video calling.
Most recently, 4G brought us useful multimedia networked computers with media-rich streaming applications like Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Netflix, and more.
Up next is 5G.
This generation of wireless technology is already being deployed in major cities in the U.S. and other countries. Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Broadcom as well as network providers AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon are all putting in maximum effort, with mobile device manufacturers starting to launch their first 5G-enabled devices.