During the first afternoon of "The Mobile Revolution", an "eminently technical" panel, as defined by its moderator, Marcelo Erlich, president of ITC Uruguay, analyzed the pathway to 5G. Adrián Di Meo, Technology Director of Telefónica Argentina, reiterated that "5G does not yet exist and will only be standardized by the end of 2020". On that pathway to standardization, Di Meo highlighted four dimensions that will define 5G: more bandwidth in mobiles with lower costs, with capability to replace current broadband, respond to massive IoT demand, reduce latency and guarantee mission-critical services. These features will also require introducing new criteria for standardization, with completely different networks, where 90% of connections correspond to IoT, particularly as regards everything related to signaling.

Daniel Martello, manager of Ericsson's Technological Evolution, said they will be able to talk about the first 5G networks by mid-next year. For Alex Raffaele, Red Hat's Telco director in Latin America, there are three important issues: creating new ways to develop products and services, modernizing and defining processes enabling to mutate in signaling areas. In addition, we must rethink the current network architecture, which is not very agile to changes, and move to an open source network.