Tim Hatt

For a lot of these countries 5G is just not on the horizon right now, that 4G generation (is) for the most part mobile only. They don't have computers... This is a whole new ball game and the operators are pretty well positioned to take advantage of that.

It's going to be a small cluster of countries that leads adoption in 5G, with the rest of the world following, china, Japan, Korea and the U.S. – between those, you're looking at well over half of worldwide 5G subscribers by 2025.