Tapping the potential of 5G

In March, Pakistan’s three mobile operators paid about $510 million for something no one can see, hear or touch. The long-delayed 5G auction nearly tripled mobile airwaves, but airwaves alone change nothing. A licence does not teach a child, and a faster network will not, by itself, create a job or make a hospital more capable. 5G is infrastructure, and infrastructure is judged by what is built on it. The question is no longer how fast Pakistan can connect, but what it can become when people, machines and institutions connect, compute and respond in real time. Great infrastructure is built…