Heavy Reading's Gabriel Brown: 5G's long road ahead

At Light Reading's 5G Transport & Networking Strategies event, analyst Gabriel Brown discusses the reality of the 5G market – standalone 5G is still on the horizon, and making all those systems work together is the industry's next big challenge.

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If you want to skip around and listen, here are a few more things covered in this interview:

• 5G service is more pervasive and expensive in the US (01:05)
• For proof of 5G expansion, just look at the rooftops (02:35)
• 5G standalone is going to be the next phase of the radio access network (RAN) evolution (03:57)
• Putting all the 5G pieces together correctly is challenging and demands much more industry collaboration (05:44)

— Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading