wireless access (FWA) technology in the UK. The idea behind FWA is to provide a cost-eective and streamlined alternative to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) or fibre-to-the- building (FTTB) solutions, without sacrificing on service performance, capacity or user experience. Samsung’s 5G Access Units (base stations) were used, utilising high frequency mmWave (millimetre wave) spectrum and advanced technologies such as beam- forming, to provide high-density coverage and ultra-high bandwidth connectivity to customer premise equipment (CPE) installed in a nearby location. The trial successfully provided ultra-high speed connectivity to multiple devices,
with performance in excess of 1Gbps – that’s 30-50 times faster than 4G (the highest average 4G speeds in the UK are still less than 30Mbps) – which can enable high-quality video streaming and virtual reality. Arqiva achieved up to 25 simultaneous UHD streams on a single CPE. Some countries are further ahead than others. We will see pre-5G in Korea this year, comments Zarri: “Markets such as South Korea, Japan and China are driving the development of 5G mobile technologies, just as Europe pioneered 3G and North America led 4G. China’s mobile operators plan to run a phased testing period for 5G networks through to 2019, before commercially launching services in 2020.
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mobile phone, weighing 1.1kg, with talk time of 30mins, charging time of 10h
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