| Description of visuals | : | The opening scene shows the main actor – a modern man walks before a cityscape background made of blue dots and meets his semi-transparent future self. The two men hold out one of their hands, palm to palm, symbolising a change of eras. A halo forms between their palms with the superscripts "2G", "3G" and "4G" appearing on the side of the modern man and the superscript "5G" on the side of the future man, denoting that the mobile telecommunications technology has evolved from the second generation, the third generation, the fourth generation to the latest fifth generation. After the changeover, the blue dotted cityscape behind them also transforms into a three-dimensional city. The voice-over says: |
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| VO | : | Eras change. We are now embracing the dawn of a new era. |
| Description of visuals | : | The scene changes to an aerial shot of Hong Kong. A semi-transparent superscript "5G" appears in the sky. The voice-over says: |
| VO | : | The upcoming 5G era will bring Enhanced Mobile Broadband Services, |
| Description of visuals | : | In the next scene, a young office lady standing in a commercial district completed the download of a 4K movie with her mobile phone swiftly. The screen shows the superscript "Download a 4K movie within seconds". The voice-over says: |
| VO | : | with download speeds 10 to 20 times faster than that of 4G, |
| Description of visuals | : | The scene changes to an aerial shot of a container terminal. Containers and cranes are connected by blue rays, symbolising the communications among the smart devices installed to them. The superscript "Massive remote control of machines" appears. The voice-over says: |
| VO | : | and Massive Machine Type Communications which support communications of up to one million smart devices per square kilometer. |
| Description of visuals | : | The scene changes to a busy road. Each vehicle on the road is connected by blue rays, denoting that a state-of-the-art intelligent transport management system is in operation. The screen shows the superscript "Intelligent transport system". |
| Description of visuals | : | The next shot shows a man driving a car. On the windshield projected the car's speed, road conditions and smart tips advising "Heavy traffic! Suggest to reroute". The voice-over says: |
| VO | : | 5G also supports Ultra Reliable and Low Latency Communications, |
| Description of visuals | : | Next is a clinic scene. A female doctor facing towards the camera is conducting a remote medical consultation for a female patient at home. The patient talks to the image of the doctor projected on a mirror about her sickness. The superscript "Remote health monitoring and medical consultation" appears on the screen. |
| Description of visuals | : | The next scene shows in split screens a doctor performing a remote surgery with a robotic arm for a patient in an operating theatre elsewhere. The superscript "Remote surgery" appears. The voice-over says: |
| VO | : | with latency as low as 1 millisecond. |
| Description of visuals | : | The scene switches to an aerial shot of Hong Kong covered by interconnected rays, denoting the coverage of 5G network throughout Hong Kong. |
| Description of visuals | : | Then a series of innovative 5G applications are shown on the screen, including two foreign tourists in the street exploring and locating a tourist attraction in Hong Kong via the augmented reality feature on their phones; a factory manager remotely operating a large-sized machinery for production lines merely on a tablet; an office lady reports work progress to her two superiors at a video conference by means of holographic projection; an elderly man playing virtual reality games with his granddaughter at home; and two young men, each wearing a pair of smart glasses, playing basketball. Their smart glasses provide instant advices including shooting angle, strength and distance to help the players score. The voice-over says: |
| VO | : | The Communications Authority has assigned radio spectrum for mobile network operators to develop innovative communications services and applications for the public and the industrial and commercial sectors. Various 5G services and applications will be progressively available in 2020. |
| Description of visuals | : | The scene returns to the future city shown at the beginning of the video. When the future man points to the superscript "Future" in his front, it instantly changes to "Today" and the future man also changes from the semi-transparent form to the tangible form. The voice-over says: |
| VO | : | The future is today. |
| Description of visuals | : | The last shot displays the following superscripts: Embrace the New 5G Era The Future is Today 5G website "www.5g.gov.hk"and the logo of the Communications Authority |