The importance of 5G to driving the UK economy, House of Commons IPT event

With 1 to 10 Gigabytes per second bandwidth; 1 millisecond latency and supporting a density of 100 or more devices in any given room size location, it is truly instant, always-on, and able to download the equivalent of a whole movie in a few seconds. This is the new competitive level of performance for the 21st century economy. It enables real-time mission critical rapid response such as connected self-driving cars to enabling the Internet of things sensors and mobile devices that will drive connected buildings, smart cities, savings energy, enabled new skills and services, changing how markets and work gets done.