Cable execs say 5G is mostly "hype"

ATLANTA – It's safe to say U.S. cable tech executives don’t seem to be overly impressed with the oft-promoted prospects of the forthcoming 5G wireless technology.Speaking at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo show here earlier this week, three top cable industry officials downplayed 5G's supposed promise, dismissing the rival wireless technology as largely full of hype. The three executives – NCTA president and CEO Michael Powell, CableLabs president and CEO Phil McKinney and Cox Communications CTO Kevin Hart – also (unsurprisingly) pronounced 5G to be far inferior to cable's emerging Full Duplex DOCSIS standard, which is the latest in the DOCSIS...