There is no shortage of talk re-garding the benefits of 5G, and barely a day passes without hearing about the latest 5G network deployment. But – while we all sign up to the ambition of gigabit connectivity and a generation of new innovative services, from mobile streaming 8K video to untethered, augmented reality it’s important to appreciate there’s a difference between creating a demand and fulfilling a need. For Africa that need is to connect the unconnected.