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5G will be vital to meet critical data applications such as IoT, smart transportation, industrial automation, remote surgery/healthcare and similar applications that require the minimum possible latency and uninterrupted bandwidth. Unless you’re running an animation studio like Pixelworks or ILM, editing 8K video or participating in a global eSports tournament, you have more than enough bandwidth for the foreseeable future. And by using advanced content preparation/production as well as intelligent global distribution of content closer to the user; we’ll be able to enjoy higher resolution, more complex formats and deeper/richer content without dropped frames or sluggish performance. Cable companies, which have historically had the fastest networks and biggest pipes, aren’t waiting for 5G to take their customers as they move to 10G, 10GB backbone and add 5G mobile to their service offerings. Thanks in no small part to the pandemic shutdown, we agree with the industry’s estimates that by the end of 2024 the global average data consumption per smartphone is projected to be 21GB per month. Being locked up with our kids for months, we’ve learned how to sit in the living room with the TV on, the smartphone in hand and ear buds in place so we halfway consume a whole lot of entertainment. Content production/distribution is so tough that we agree with Chili Palmer in Get Shorty when he said, “Rough business, this movie business. I’m gonna have to go back to loan-sharking just to take a rest.”