5G, the great opportunity for small businesses - Interview with Antonio Capone
April 7th, 2020
Abstract
The new issue of "Intelligenze reali", the publishing initiative between Politecnico di Milano and Corriere della Sera, is dedicated to 5G.
It includes an interview with Antonio Capone, professor of Telecommunications at the Politecnico on the opportunities offered to small businesses by the introduction of 5G technology. A big risk but also a great opportunity: everything will depend on latency. Not so much from the time interval between the sending of a signal and its reception by a device: that, with telecommunications in 5G standards that begin to abandon their experimental dimension to turn into reality, will be practically zeroed thanks to the very fast performance of mobile technology. Rather than the response capacity of our economy to understand the scope of change. The opportunity, in fact, is at hand - once the new network has been built, it will be necessary to fill it with contents, applications and solutions all to be invented and put on the market - but it hides a pitfall, namely that of being colonized by the global offer of Big Tech. In practice, a race against time. "If the network has now become a commodity and the telecommunications market is characterized by decreasing revenues - tells Antonio Capone - the decline of the idea that the infrastructure of the digital world can be made by applications in big data centers of the giants of the web is perhaps the most important novelty that the arrival of 5G has brought to everyone's attention ».
For further information: https://tinyurl.com/r9xbnow
It includes an interview with Antonio Capone, professor of Telecommunications at the Politecnico on the opportunities offered to small businesses by the introduction of 5G technology. A big risk but also a great opportunity: everything will depend on latency. Not so much from the time interval between the sending of a signal and its reception by a device: that, with telecommunications in 5G standards that begin to abandon their experimental dimension to turn into reality, will be practically zeroed thanks to the very fast performance of mobile technology. Rather than the response capacity of our economy to understand the scope of change. The opportunity, in fact, is at hand - once the new network has been built, it will be necessary to fill it with contents, applications and solutions all to be invented and put on the market - but it hides a pitfall, namely that of being colonized by the global offer of Big Tech. In practice, a race against time. "If the network has now become a commodity and the telecommunications market is characterized by decreasing revenues - tells Antonio Capone - the decline of the idea that the infrastructure of the digital world can be made by applications in big data centers of the giants of the web is perhaps the most important novelty that the arrival of 5G has brought to everyone's attention ».
For further information: https://tinyurl.com/r9xbnow
