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One has a powerful, profitable international/ national organization – ITU (International Telecommunications Union) and GSMA (Global System for Mobile Communications) – and their members pushing it. The other has the Wi-Fi Alliance promoting what is arguably the Internet's most important technology because it connects nearly 57 percent of the world's population and is widely viewed as a strategic asset for business, industry and most countries. But the big difference is one you pay for by the minute and byte. The other is sorta', kinda' free because businesses/ organizations need it to do business, keep things connected and working smoothly together. And, no matter what your phone person gives you, he's probably backhauling half your stuff to the Internet any way! Ever y day, we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data that will flood out of the dozens of connected devices we have without an ultra-high speed, robust infrastructure to move it reliably. Over the past two years, more than 90 percent of the world's data has been produced. IMHO Wi-Fi 6 is sexier, more important than the 5G build- out because it's all about business and advanced IoT applications – industrial automation, autonomous vehicles, important stuff. The phone and 4G LTE service we have today is "good enough" for streaming 4K video content, shooting/ sending selfies, texting the kids (no one calls today) and tracking/following folks on social media. According to Irving Tan, Cisco's Sr VP/ chief of ops, it's data and by 2022, he projected data traffic in a single year will equal everything produced in the last 32 years of the Internet … combined. Data is important to the auto industry because it needs it so it can safely introduce AVs to save people's lives (inside/ outside the vehicle) who can't take their eyes off their screens. Greg Basich, associate director