Self-driving cars, virtual reality, smart cities and networked robots will all be powered by 5G networks. Major telecommunications companies are far along in their 5G network development, and the first 5G networks are already up and running. 5G is primarily about three new things: Faster speeds, faster connections and faster access to the cloudFaster speedsLike every "next generation" wireless network technology, 5G will give your phone speedier connection -- up to 100 times faster than 4G. To accomplish all that, much of the 5G network will travel over super-high-frequency airwaves. 5G networks bring data storage much closer to devices and help them quickly access information.

Source: CNN February 25, 2019 15:22 UTC