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Could 5G rescue the world’s economy from a coronavirus recession? (ZDNet)

October 31, 2020


ZDNet.com posted an article on the latest argument favoring 5G–that the next generation of information and/or communications technology will support a new wave of productivity in the workplace. That wave will bring forth a new foundation for cost efficiency and commerce that benefits, directly or indirectly, everyone in the world’s broader economy. Radio and network equipment company Nokia has released a report on the subject, but Senior Fellow Emeritus Sherman Robinson, finds the report confusing. “They said GDP will go up, and they basically looked at profits and wages, and government. That’s very confusing.” The confusion has to do with the correlation — or lack of it — between enterprise connectivity as a broad concept, and GDP as the product of an explicit formula

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