For consumers, it's initially mostly about faster mobile surfing, no one can say today what tomorrow's new "killer apps" based on 5G will be.

For companies that put more and more of their business in the cloud, the user benefit is more concrete.

Therefore, the business community has complained about the Swedish 5G delay.

In the competitor's defense

The auction will end too soon, thinks Huawei, which was ported from supplying equipment for the 5G network by the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (which does as the Armed Forces and Säpo told them).

The company is trying to appeal the ban to the last.

Even telecom operators who will be bidding on the 5 licenses seem moderately satisfied that the auction will start before the rules of the game are definitely ready.

Three, who already have a lot of equipment from Huawei that they may have to get rid of, have also appealed PTS's decision.

For them, the calculation is now uncertain.

Ericsson is also said to have pulled out to the competitor's defense.

According to DN, CEO Börje Ekholm has tried to influence the government to get it to intervene and change the decision.

And Jacob Wallenberg, vice chairman of Ericsson and chairman of Ericsson's major investor, has told the newspaper that it is "important that Huawei is allowed to operate in Sweden".

An initiative that might appease someone in Beijing.

For Ericsson, China is an important export market.

Fear of "made in China"

Another risk is that competition decreases when the telecom operators go from having three suppliers to play against each other, to only two (Ericsson and Nokia). 

But if we get 5G too late, maybe a little too expensive, then it's for safety's sake.

It's all about the fear that Chinese tech companies mean a latent back door for the Communist Party to spy or sabotage through what has been built "made in China".

Or as EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager puts it when I ask her about the 'Huawei ban' in Europe and what it could ultimately mean for the cost of the 5G expansion:

- Of course you have a point there, but the problem when it comes to security is that it can also be too cheap.

You pay a price if you pay with data flowing out to someone you do not want to see it.

This is a price you must also include in the calculation.