Fully 34 percent of 1,000 surveyed information technology professionals in industry verticals including energy, retail, manufacturing, government and public safety, automotive and transportation, media and advertising, education in the United States and the United Kingdom report that they already are using 5G.
The study was conducted by Parks Associates and sponsored by Nokia.
What is not clear is how extensive 5G might be in each industry vertical. The video surveillance use case, for example, is a “point” application relatively easy to deploy, but also limited in impact.
Apparently none of the respondents taking the structured survey was asked about edge computing or private networks.
Methodologically, the survey used a guided method. As often is the case, researchers had to pre-define the use cases, and then essentially asked respondents which of the use cases had the most appeal. Respondents did not have the choice of naming the use cases they deemed most important, but had to choose from among the offered cases.
The findings are helpful and suggestive, to be sure. But if you have ever participated in these sorts of surveys, you know they force fit you into a set of potential answers that might not be the choices you would have made if the question had been asked a different way, or if the question were open ended.
The reported level of 5G adoption is three times the percentage of 5G users in South Korea, an early mover having reached adoption levels of 10 percent of mobile accounts, which now use 5G. That might seem incongruous, but the survey only assesses whether 5G is used someplace, somehow, by an enterprise. It does not try to assess the ubiquity of 5G use.
The consumer use case is binary: subscribers are either “all in” or “not using.” The enterprise use cases are much more nuanced: enterprises can prototype or pilot, without adopting broadly. They also can use 5G in specific ways, without needing to adopt organization wide.
The survey finds enterprise information technology professionals widely believe video applications will be an early lead application for 5G, with 83 percent of 1,000 IT professionals naming video detection and alerts as a 5G use case of interest. An equal percentage named video surveillance as a promising use case.
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