This is how the mobile communications industry wants to make money with 5G

Barcelona There are almost 1,900 kilometers between Barcelona and Berlin, and a direct flight takes 2 hours and 45 minutes. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week, the start-up Vay is demonstrating that this distance can be bridged in milliseconds.

At a trade fair stand, a teleoperator takes over the remote control of an electric car in the German capital – mobile phone technology and fiber optic lines transport the signal across Europe. Since the cars are on the road without a driver, every millisecond counts.

At its leading trade fair in the Mediterranean metropolis, starting this Monday, the telecommunications industry is once again painting the picture of a brave new world: the new generation of networking technology, in particular the 5G mobile communications standard, is intended to enable data exchange in real time with high bandwidths and low latencies. Whether for remote-controlled cars or virtual reality glasses, whether in operating theaters or factories.