Assessing the public perception of the fifth generation of mobile communication (5G) by sentiment analysis of Twitter users

With the development of mobile communications and the advent of the Fifth Generation, increasing Internet speed and capabilities as enablers of the Internet of Things is creating changes in people's daily lives and work. On the other hand, there are environmental issues, the possibility of pathogenicity, and doubts about the realization of the imagined features, which are much debated today. Most researches has paid attention to technical and developmental dimensions of it, while from the social science perspective, the acceptance of new technology and from the marketing perspective, consumer satisfaction can be important for service providers. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of Twitter social network users as a microblogging platform about the fifth generation of mobile communication using machine learning methods and Sentiment Analysis .Therefore, a collection of more than 40,000 tweets on this topic was compiled through the Twitter user interface and the Recurrent Neural Network model was created with79% accuracy. Finally, the topic modeling was done by LDA method for further deepening. The results shows that although there is dissatisfaction with the quality provided, the cost and coverage of the fifth generation of mobile communications, health concerns, rumors that Covid19 is related to the fifth generation, but still more people are optimistic about the future of this technology in various fields such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence..