According to 2026 IHL Group research, only 23% of retailers have 5G at the store level. The rest are running modern AI workloads, electronic shelf labels, computer vision, and mobile POS on infrastructure designed for a handful of terminals and a back-office PC. The financial impacts follow directly from that decision. In this webinar, we will review the findings from a survey of over 400 retail brands and help you benchmark your organization’s infrastructure readiness against your competition. What you will learn The specific financial premium enabled by 5G networks, measured across sales growth, profit growth, and IT investment velocity The seven operational signals that indicate a store network is operating beyond its design How retailers leverage 5G to deploy AI-adjacent technologies at rates that fundamentally change the competitive benchmark The four-phase 5G readiness framework that sequences network investment to unlock downstream technology ROI
