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Everyone in telecom knows something about 5G. Engineers understand their domain. Marketers understand the services. Regulators understand the spectrum. Executives understand the business case. Almost no one holds the whole picture.

Written by Henry Dijkstra — a telecommunications CEO and CTO with over 35 years of hands-on experience spanning the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean — this book closes that gap.

Fast Lane to the Future takes you through the entire 5G technology stack in one connected narrative: spectrum assignment and radio frequency fundamentals, mm-waves and Massive MIMO, Open RAN and functional splitting, 5G-NR protocol stacks, 5G Core architecture and network functions, network slicing, security, lawful intercept, converged charging, voice services, regulation, infrastructure sharing, and business readiness for enterprise 5G.

This isn't a specialist reference and it isn't a dry technical manual. It's a helicopter view — written so that engineers, marketers, regulators, consultants, and executives can each see where their own expertise fits into the larger system, and why 5G only delivers its promised value when every layer works together.

Drawing on decades of real deployments — and the costly mistakes that happen when departments work in isolation — Dijkstra offers a rare end-to-end perspective on the technology reshaping global connectivity.

If you work in or around 5G and have ever wished someone would connect the dots for you, this is that book.

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