Does Verizon’s 5G wireless network have the power to boost entrepreneurship in the Sacramento Region?
Dimitrios Dovas didn’t move his startup from Silicon Valley to Sacramento because he heard the high-speed 5G wireless network was coming to town. He relocated last spring looking for engineers.
“Sacramento can be the center for the next wave of technology,” he says.
His company, Highlands Power, makes compact electric motors and generators. It’s a small startup of only six people. Right now, Dovas is interviewing local engineers to expand the company, fully convinced of the Capital Region’s potential as an electric autonomous vehicle hotspot.
The news that Verizon chose Sacramento to deploy its high-speed 5G network, he says, helped verify his vision. He sees the network — the fifth generation of internet connectivity, which Verizon plans to launch in the second half of 2018 — as a bonus that will drive business by giving startups in his sector a leg up in terms of mapping traffic and road conditions, as well as transportation patterns.
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