5G : The Future of Networking

5G : The Future of Networking 5G is the crucial next step for the Indian telecommunication sector as well as the Indian economy, since the significant increase in speed of the network and the drop in latency – which signifies the amount of time it takes to reconnect to the internet once disconnected – will help immensely in grappling with the ever-increasing number of internet users as well as the number of essential services that are more dependant than ever on the Internet, in a post-pandemic world. Even aside from the infrastructural importance that 5G holds for India at this juncture, it will also, overall, bring India in line with the global mainstream, especially since 5G is intrinsically linked with and demonstrates the advancement in the ‘Internet of Things’ (IOT), which term is used to describe the way the smallest of devices, today, connect with each other and exchange data over the Internet.