Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 1:36 pm on 20 March 2019.
We'll be discussing this further this afternoon, I know, but let's decouple the city deal with the broader agenda of digitisation. The two are not the same thing. One is a means towards an end, and let's focus on the broader end. 5G, of course, at the moment is not something that's being developed at any scale. We've commissioned Innovation Point to give advice to the Welsh Governmenment on how we can capitalise upon it. There are far more mundane things that we can do to make these technologies work. For example, the internet-of-things can be powered by a LoRaWAN network, which is a low-frequency network that is much more commonplace and day-to-day than 5G. So, there are things that we can do now using far less high-tech gadgets than 5G that can really make a difference. So, let's focus on what can be done while we figure out where this goes next, because it's a fast-moving environment.