> A crucial element of 5G is to give wireless companies the ability to monetize their services more effectively, to > ensure they’ll never again be treated lik

> A crucial element of 5G is to give wireless companies the ability to monetize their services more effectively, to > ensure they’ll never again be treated like "dumb pipes" by online businesses they don't control. For carriers or > network providers, the great advance of 5G is “network slicing,” which will allow carriers to create, on the fly, > multiple customized virtual private networks for particular customers or applications. This will create a > high-priced, services-based, perfectly-billed-for ecosystem that’s very different from the 4G world. Wish this part of the article had gotten more attention here. This will be a game changer for what the internet looks like.