Will it really? 4G reaches 70 Mbps, how do you think that'll change society when we now can have a whole ~600 Mpbs? My guess is, people will stream videos faster, but that's about it.
Also, 480p vs 1080p is not a major game changer for society, at least in the society I live in.
Virtual environment been possible to stream on the fly for a long time. Only thing that will change with going from 4G to 5G is that the quality will be higher, hardly a "major game changer for society" as liquidify put it.
I wondered what I could possibly do with 600Mb/s, but I noticed that Telenor isn't charging any extra for a 5G connection (my phone doesn't support it). Isn't the main feature that the speed is still high even when there are lots of people using it, rather than my test at midnight in a city centre?
I’ve recently switched to using a 5G connection for home internet and whilst it’s very early days - a slight sacrifice in latency (ADSL isn’t great there either), and a daily modem restart, is a welcome price to pay for 250Mbps down/50Mbps up (at the same price point).
Cloud gaming companies are going to benefit a lot from 5G I think. Also Machine Learning on remote GPUs.
I've also read that car manufacturers want to use 5G technology for cars to communicate with each other.
That sounds like a marketing statement from some car manufacturer who wants to sound like they on with the times. There are plenty of technologies and protocols they could deploy to allow cars to speak directly with each other (without any 3rd party infrastructure like antennas), no 5G needed here.
But 5G will improve _total_ bandwidth I assume, which is in fact going to improve the situation for very congested areas.
I've been to music festivals in the centre of a city (Glasgow, Scotland, UK) where my phone usually works quite well, but at that festival I'd struggle to send a text.
That's when festivals are allowed again, mind you.