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5G could revolutions jobs, healthcare, education, and "equalise some of the economic development opportunities and the places where some employers want to be located," claims former Delaware governor Jack Markell.

"Technology plays an increasingly important role in connecting people over Christmas," claims Vodafone UK's chief technology officer Scott Petty. "Flying a drone over 4G for the first time gives us a glimpse of what Christmas deliveries of the future might look like."

"We want satellite graphs to be crowd-sourced and collaborative," explains Corey Shields. "We welcome you all to sign in to the dashboard, and if you would like to hack on your own graphs let us know and we will grant you privileges to do so."

UK telecommunications regulator aims to make new, simpler, and more affordable licences available by the second half of 2019, pending the outcome of its current consultation.

"A special focus will be put on open source developments," explains organiser Bastian Bloessl in his call for participation, " as they speed up innovation in the mobile networks ecosystem."

"Mobile operators have a history of maximising the impact of our spectrum resources and no one else has done more to transform spectrum allocations into services that are changing people’s lives," claims GSMA head of spectrum Brett Tarnutzer, calling for governments to support 5G mmWave implementations.

"A device based on Miura-Ori could both deploy and be re-tuned to a broad range of frequencies as compared to traditional frequency selective surfaces," explains researcher Abdullah Nauroze.

"Densification absolutely requires an open ecosystem to make deployment of large numbers of cells cost-effective," explains Small Cell Forum chair David Orloff of his group's call to action ahead of global commercial 5G deployment.

"Cloud computing companies have benefited from collaboration on open source," Rader explains. "Telecoms providers ought to be looking at doing the same in 2019 by making infrastructure work for everyone, improving efficiency and opening up networks for all apps on their infrastructure."

"Amazon EC2 [Elastic Compute Cloud] made compute power accessible on a cost-effective, pay-as-you-go basis. AWS Ground Station does the same for satellite ground stations," claims Amazon's Jeff Barr of the company's new satellite communications offering.