# The New Era of Business Digitization through the Implementation of 5G Technology in Romania
## 4 Results
prepared to face the changes of 5G technology, but 120 of the respondents largely agreed with the participation of the staff in trainings/courses/specializations in order to adapt more easily to the process of changing 5G technology. Based on the scores obtained, we observed that three of the characteristics were above average, suggesting that most of the respondents agreed with the information presented to a large and very large extent. The use of 5G technology represents an evolution for 211 (64.70%) of the respondents and an adaptation for 97 (29.80%) of them. Several 18 respondents (5.50%) did not validate any of the variants mentioned, preferring not to respond. Of all the entities participating in the study, 40 (12.30%) consider that they will implement 5G technology as soon as possible, 185 (56.70%) in the next 5 years, 85 (26.10%) in the next 10 years, and 16 (4.90%) did not answer this question. A decisive factor for the implementation and use of 5G technology by Romanian economic entities was the advantages it offers, as well as the knowledge of the factors that could influence its use. Thus, among the factors that influence the use of new technology, competition was the variant most appreciated by respondents at 136 (41.70%), followed by low productivity at 75 (23%), staff dissatisfaction at 42 (12.90%), as well as external pressures in favor of change at 28 (8.60%) or interpersonal or between-group conflicts, also at 28 (8.60%). Also, the social and political context could be another factor influencing the use of 5G technology, but only 17 (5.20%) of the respondents chose this variant. The advantages that 5G technology will offer, as well as the expectations of the participants in this research, are presented in Table 6.  
As with any new activity started, the use of the new technology may have some disadvantages, so 82 (25.20%) of the respondents considered that the implementation of 5G technology involves very high costs, 67 (20.60%) mentioned the negative impact on the environment, 57 (17.50%) considered fear of the unknown again one of the barriers. \begin{table}
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**Expectations** & **Frequency** & **Percent** & **Expectations** & **Frequency** & **Percent** \\ \hline Faster connections & 58 & 17.80 & Increasing operational efficiency & 35 & 10.70 \\ Higher speed & 95 & 29.10 & Increasing the coverage of information in several & 66 & 20.20 \\ Better support for (IoT) & 34 & 10.4 & Increased productivity & 59 & 18.10 \\ Better connectivity & 55 & 16.90 & Improved reliability & 74 & 22.70 \\ Higher throughput of & 27 & 8.30 & Increasing cyber security & 58 & 17.80 \\  Low latency & 57 & 17.50 & The possibility of fast connection of several devices & 34 & 10.4 \\ Total & 326 & 100 & Total & 326 & 100 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 6: Expectations versus advantages of using 5G technology. \begin{table}
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**Variable** & **1** & **2** & **3** & **4** & **5** & **Score** \\ \hline The current information solutions can continue to meet the needs of your business over the next 5 years & 139 & 137 & 42 & 8 & 0 & 1.75 \\ The use of 5G technology is absolutely necessary for the evolution of your business & 25 & 74 & 70 & 66 & 91 & 3.38 \\ Continuously changing stakeholder requests can influence the use of new 5G technologies & 15 & 121 & 120 & 53 & 17 & 2.80 \\ Staff is ready to handle the changes of 5G technology & 127 & 93 & 54 & 27 & 25 & 2.17 \\ Employees are encouraged to actively participate in the change process within the organization in order to use 5G technology & 0 & 111 & 137 & 41 & 37 & 3.01 \\ Employees are encouraged to participate in trainings/courses/specializations to adapt more easily to the change of 5G technology & 0 & 72 & 75 & 120 & 59 & 3.51 \\ Changing brought by 5G technology within your organization is a beneficial process & 0 & 9 & 80 & 129 & 108 & 4.03 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 5: Frequency of responses to the use and implementation of 5G technology.