5G means so many things to people it gets muddy. If you are Verizon or ATT, you have lots of mmwave spectrum, so your interest is in dense urban environments a

5G means so many things to people it gets muddy. If you are Verizon or ATT, you have lots of mmwave spectrum, so your interest is in dense urban environments and multi-dwelling units where your speed let's you compete against wifi and cable providers. You spent a bazillion on spectrum and you need to give your customers reasons to pay extra for their service. If you are t-mobile, you have a ton of mid range spectrum. After all, that was the only reason you bought sprint. You will want to go after consumers with a coverage play, since that is better than mmwave from T and VZ. You might also dip your toe in business services like IoT for farmers and factories. If you are a hyperscaler, you need CBRS (3.5GHz) to take off. You'll be pitching IoT and edge compute like crazy because the radio coverage is better than wifi, the speeds are good and best of all the spectrum is available at essentially nominal cost. What you won't get just yet, but will hear about a lot, are the toys like vr robots. The ugly truth is that no one really knows what the killer app for 5g is yet, but every operator is terrified that just like 4G theyll miss the value chain and leave apple or whoever to ride their network and slurp up the profit.