TOKYO -- South Korea, the U.S. and Japan are at the forefront of fifth-generation network deployment but the applications that would harness the full potential of the technology would take some time to emerge, said a panel of industry officials at Nikkei's Global Digital Summit 2019 on Monday.
In the three leading 5G markets, "telecommunication carriers are active in expanding the network coverage area," said Satoshi Iwao, vice president of the network division at Samsung Electronics Japan.
