Policymakers should focus on five critical success factors in order to ensure the US continues to build its emerging 5G economy, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG). BCG’s study draws on an in-depth analysis of the factors that secured America’s leadership of the 4G economy.

Since 2010, some 4,000 MHz of spectrum has been awarded to mobile operators in the Americas, more than doubling the amount assigned in the previous 20-year period, according to new research by Cullen International.