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EU, South Korea Collaborate On Superfast 5G Standards

Posted by samzenpus on from the greased-lightning dept.

jfruh writes The European Commission and the South Korean government announced that they will be harmonizing their radio spectrum policy in an attempt to help bring 5G wireless tech to market by 2020. While the technology is still in an embryonic state, but one South Korean researcher predicts it could be over a thousand times faster than current 4G networks.

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  1. How much more can we squeeze? by i+kan+reed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's only so much theoretical bandwidth on the broadcast range e/m spectrum. How much gets reserved for non-consumer purposes? How many towers/area can we afford? There's gotta be a theoretical fundamental limit, somewhere, right? Like there is with Moore's law?

    1. Re:How much more can we squeeze? by AndroSyn · · Score: 4, Informative

      The limit you are looking for, the Shannon limit is explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:Roll out some real 4G first, then we can talk 5 by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Insightful

    LTE was first proposed in 2003-2004 and lab tested in 2005-2006, which was years before 3G networks were fully deployed. It will likewise be years before there are real world trials of 5G technology, then some time after that before consumer gear becomes available at affordable prices and carriers being deployment.

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  3. Now you can blow through your 2GB of data at $30 by hsmith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In 30 seconds!

  4. Re:a THOUSAND times faster than 4G? by RJFerret · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I believe the "could be" part, if it's just 10% faster s/he's right.

    And an attempt by 2020 means more like 2026, and the US will have an incompatible slower version around 2030.

    Jaded, I am.

  5. It's gonna be funny when our cellphone Internet... by iampiti · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...is consistently faster than our wired home connections.
    It all sounds a little weird to me: Isn't a dedicated cable always much more reliable and capable than a wireless connection? That's what I thought at least.
    I guess it's cheaper to deploy antennas every few hundred meters than to wire every home

  6. 5G by rossdee · · Score: 4, Funny

    5G is about 49 meters per second per second

  7. That's not what we need in the US by jtownatpunk.net · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the US, we need cheaper wireless, not faster. I've been passing thru some of Verizon's XLTE areas lately where my speeds have topped out at 69/19Mbps. That's pretty darn fast but completely useless for the vast majority of their customers with their piddly 1-10 gig caps.

  8. Re:Roll out some real 4G first, then we can talk 5 by Arker · · Score: 3, Informative

    You missed his point. 4G has a definition, LTE and the other junk being sold as 4g does not make it. Marketing, as marketing normally does, simply lied and mislabeled what they actually had (improved 3g) as what people wanted to buy (4g) and made the sale anyway.

    So now we are talking about 5g or 6g but we do not actually have 4g availability yet.

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