There would appear to be some way to go from where we are now to the promised $7 trillion cash mountain. Unless you are immersed in the sector it’s not hyper obvious that 5G is setting the world alight right now. B2b applications are popping up steadily, particularly in the industrial sector, but on the consumer side it’s not even that noticeable you are getting anything different on a 5G connection compared to a 4G connections.
The really spicy stuff we’ve been promised like mixed reality metaverse worlds, self driving cars, and teched up hospitals that resemble the sickbay on Star Trek, are all only in their nascent states right now, so it’s hard to tell which will end up being money spinners and which will end up being duds. But there’s 8 years to go before 2030 so there’s plenty of time for such predictions of vast riches on the horizon to come to fruition – though by then of course the industry will explaining how much more lucrative 6G is than boring old 5G.
https://telecoms.com/517015/5g-will-generate-7-trillion-by-2030-apparently/