“We’re ready to roll but I think we need to wait for the right moment,” Telefónica CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete said about 5G.

Now that T-Mobile US has laid a widespread 5G footprint, much of its future plans hang on the outcome of its proposed merger with Sprint.

Industry observers agree that the outlook for IoT is up, but the trajectory of that growth and where it will be most impactful in the near term are largely

The technology is still, at least partially, theoretical because it remains under development and hasn’t been commercially deployed at large.

Current COO Joerg Erlemeier will leave the company after a 25-year run on Jan. 1. His functions will be distributed to other leaders within the company.

“5G is an important element but it’s not the Holy Grail of IoT," said AWS IoT VP Dirk Didascalou.

The agency has also established a process to designate additional companies.

Edge computing is a dispersion or distribution of the cloud and latency is the driving force of this evolution, said MEF CTO Pascal Menezes.

Nokia outlined five key business objectives for 5G that can only be delivered by a cloud-native environment.

The network equipment vendor and operator deployed the MEC capabilities and network slicing in the Guangdong province, which has a population of almost 115 million people.

“SD-WAN is the gateway for security,” MEF CTO Pascal Menezes said during his keynote at MEF 2019.

MEF’s community has grown about 70% to more than 200 organizations during the last 18 months, and it expects to double that number by the end of 2020.

The platform includes the edge node latency performance required to fully virtualize 5G vRAN functions including industrial IoT and mobile-edge computing.

This marks the end of John Legere’s run at the company, which began in September 2012

It was lauded for adding features to its IoT platform at an “impressive rate” with richer edge capabilities in Azure IoT Edge.

Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung have much to lose if the RAN space flattens to a point where their equipment becomes a commodity.

A 5G SA core will allow operators to offer 5G-specific services, including network slicing, mobile edge computing, AI-driven analytics, and ultra-low latency networks.

“The real speed boost typically comes with technologies like millimeter-wave [spectrum]," says AT&T’s Igal Elbaz.

Intel estimates that the AI community’s demand for compute will increase 64 times during the next two years.

The servers are the result of a collaboration that began in March 2017 between Marvell, Microsoft, and Foxconn subsidiary Ingrasys.

Technology prototypes tested and validated by the group are now commercially available and being deployed in multiple networks.

The carrier says it will be commercially deploying the open mobile transport protocol at scale in Germany.

The effort involves 6,000 new cell sites and will fulfill a condition that the operators agreed to as part of Germany's 5G spectrum auction.

The top security concerns related to 5G include a larger attack surface, device proliferation, IoT devices, and the authentication of more devices.