It's almost commonplace now to say we're in uncharted territory. The type of social behavior that was said to be the driver of innovation in mobile technology — our greater mobility and wider social circles — is today, and for the near future, a danger to humanity. The economy into which some in our society are all too eager to emerge, is already suffering from an artificial, though necessary, shutdown.
Nothing more pointedly epitomizes the tremendous confusion among the very people that a global 5G Wireless infrastructure would seek to bring together than the arson attacks against wireless transmitter masts[1] in the UK and throughout Europe. The motive behind these attacks is believed to be the widely propagated conspiracy "theory," backed by an ample supply of lack of evidence, that Chinese technology embedded in 5G towers is intentionally creating coronavirus[2] spores and spreading them with high-frequency radio waves. There's so much to disprove the very notion of this mechanism, the "theorists" argue, that it must be true.
The abundance of disposable income that was supposed to fuel the world's transition to a more practical, easier-to-manage, energy-efficient wireless infrastructure, has already been ransacked by SARS-CoV-2. Now the business model and the value proposition for the technology portfolio -- or, at the very least, what parts of that portfolio may be salvaged -- must change. As countries are faced with 20% unemployment or worse, 5G must transition from a cool feature into a national priority.
Made by China
In China, that transition has already happened. On March 24, that country officially launched its nationwide transition program to a full 5G Wireless infrastructure -- not 5G paired with 4G LTE as the US and Europe is deploying now, but weaning China off of the high-power,