Airspan Vice President of Strategy and Marketing Damiao Coletti discusses the company's work in developing 5G solutions for vertical industries as well as its open RAN solutions, which are part of Rakuten Mobile's greenfield network build.

Chris Pearson, president of 5G Americas, discusses the outlook for mid-band 5G spectrum in the U.S. and how that informs operator strategies and commercialization of new 5G services. And, in a first for our recurring Proust questionnaire segment, Pearson reflects on how he'd like to die.

Telecom industry expert Kevin Shatzkamer discusses the intersection of 5G and supporting technologies, including edge computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence.

Radisys CEO Arun Bhikshesvaran discusses his favorite journey, the outlook for open RAN and Radisys' role of enabling, integrating and managing a 5G world.

This week CommScope's Farid Firouzbakht, senior vice president and general manager, discusses some of the distinct considerations associated with 5G at sub-6 GHz frequencies vs. at millimeter wave frequencies. He also shares perspective on the rapidly evolving open RAN debate and looks to the future of massive MIMO.

On the latest episode of Will 5G Change The World? Ignacio Contreras, Qualcomm's senior director of 5G marketing, looks at near-term consumer adoption of 5G and discusses how operator deployment strategies will shape uptake. Contreras also contemplates whether achieving perfect happiness is possible.

Mike Zeto, SVP of Global Strategy and Emerging Businesses for Boingo Wireless, discusses the trajectory of in-building connectivity as it relates to trends in the DAS, small cells and 5G. Zeto also reflects on the six-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls.

Sandro Tavares, Nokia's global head of mobile networks marketing, discusses the move from non-standalone to standalone 5G, and explores the role of distributed computing in delivering new 5G services.

VMware's Shekar Ayyar, executive vice president and general manager of VMware's Telco and Edge Cloud business unit, discusses the extension of virtualization out of the core and into the RAN, the relationship between telco cloud and time to serve revenue, and shares perspective on how 5G will enable digital transformation over time.

Parallel Wireless CEO Steve Papa discusses Open RAN momentum from the perspective of both network economics and global regulatory machinations; and looks at the how 5G scale as a function of lower cost could address the global digital divide.