While the scope of Frost & Sullivan’s 5G coverage deals with all aspects of the mobile value chain, from delivery infrastructure to innovative services and use cases, this report focuses on the use cases that are driving this new generation of wireless communications technology.

The initial coverage of 5G rollouts globally focuses on the consumer market and improved download speeds, but the true promise of 5G will be evident in many varied use cases that will affect a range of industries—and most of the far-reaching potential will be outside the view of the public.

The global development and rollout of 5G is standards driven. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards organization is leading the technical development of 5G and has based its requirements on more than 100 use cases, of which the majority are relatively high level and industry agnostic.

Frost & Sullivan with this report looks first at the high-level 3GPP use case categories, then delves deeper into a few key industries (automotive and transportation, manufacturing, government, and healthcare) and the use cases that will have the biggest impact.