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The Next Wave Of Connectivity

CELLPHONE TOWERS ARE EASY TO SPOT. EVEN when not camouflaged as trees, flags or church steeples, they’re massive structures and what mobile networks use to provide high-speed, high-quality coverage. But when you find yourself in an area with terrible reception, or when your devices lose signal and switch from 4G to 3G, it’s likely the network is congested. 5G, the fifth generation of wireless technology, is about to change that forever.

“What we are doing is we’re using more of a particular natural phenomenon,” explains Brett StClair, the CEO and co-founder of , a global data and machine learning engineering consultancy. “5G uses spectrum, or waves. It uses the same waves that we’ve been using since the sixties to deliver

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