Contents
Executive summary ............................................................................................................... 1
Why focus on productivity? ................................................................................................... 2
5G—faster, better and different ................................................................................................... 2
Costs and deployment ................................................................................................................... 4
The potential benefits ................................................................................................................... 6
Assessing the potential productivity impacts ....................................................................... 13
Key findings .................................................................................................................................. 13
How 5G will affect productivity ................................................................................................... 13
Using different scenarios to test the productivity impacts ......................................................... 14
Results from the scenarios .......................................................................................................... 18
Sectoral impacts .......................................................................................................................... 22
A qualitative approach—5G & healthcare ............................................................................ 25
Key findings .................................................................................................................................. 25
Productivity analysis alone does not tell the full story of 5G’s impact ....................................... 25
A qualitative assessment of 5G and healthcare .......................................................................... 26
Appendix A: Methodology ................................................................................................... 31
An overview of the approach ...................................................................................................... 31
Growth accounting approach ...................................................................................................... 32
Forecasting .................................................................................................................................. 32
The scenarios ............................................................................................................................... 33
Graphical results of the different scenarios ................................................................................ 35
Linking growth accounting to incomes ........................................................................................ 36
Appendix B: ICT, internet and GPT studies ........................................................................... 40
References .......................................................................................................................... 42