Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday morning, KT chairman Chang-Gyu Hwang said the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, of which KT is a sponsor, would be “the first ever 5G Olympics”. Other industry figures have predicted that the 5G infrastructure, which is vital to facilitating the burgeoning ‘internet of things,’ will not be ready on a large scale until 2020.