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Benedict Evans

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What matters in tech? Newsletter, essays and presentations by Benedict Evans.

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5G: if you build it, we will fill it

What is 5G? Why do we care? How much faster does the pipe get? What can we do with a fatter pipe?  How does this relate to VR? Cars? Broadband? What’s the killer app?  Really, unless you work in a few very narrow niches, you shouldn’t spend much time thinking about it.