5G technology is revolutionising the financial services space through its super-fast , low latency and real-time delivery applications . The global rollout is well underway - we track the technology ’ s history

1G IS BORN

Japan was the first country in the world to launch 1G wireless technology - an innovation that was to lead to connectivity so advanced that it would literally change the world

THE US JOINS IN

By the mid 80s , the Nippon Telegraph and telephone network had rolled out 1G countrywide . The world was taking notes , and the US had also launched its own 1G network using the Motorola DynaTAC mobile phone

SECOND GENERATION

Providing significantly better wireless connections , 2G offered data services for mobile - introducing SMS text messages and digitally encrypted conversations for the very first time

14 November 2022