European Union Partners with Japan to Push on 5G Technology

With the release of 3G technology a few years ago, the European Union (EU) used to be the leader in the wireless technology. However, its competitors such as US, Japan and South Korea went ahead for the 4G technology and leaving the Union behind in the wireless technology. However, for the 5G research and development, the Union decided to work together with Japan as 5G is seen as the backbone of the future digital economy.

The main objective in partnering with Japan is to develop standards which are needed to develop mobile internet which is working on any device such as from smartphones, connected cars as well as government services. Apart from partnering with Japan, as the effort for developing 5G technology, the Union has done partnership with South Korea previously, having talks with other countries as well as various companies which seem interested in developing the technology.

Researchers at Ericsson have managed to achieve data rates of 10Gbps which can be seen as proof-of-concept of 5G testing. However, it seems like there are a lot more things to do before 5G can be launched commercially, such as building the infrastructure as well as the devices which are able to support the 5G technology itself.  However, before all of that, the first thing that the Union is expected to do is to set a standard of 5G technology as well as push for global agreement on 5G spectrum allocation.

Based on the above factors, it seems like 5G technology will be available for public by the year 2020, but the things look promising.

European Union Partners with Japan to Push on 5G Technology

Huawei teams up with Russia’s MegaFon for developing 5G

Already when the fourth generation wireless system has started to roll-out in the market, international tech biggies are eyeing on bring up the fifth generation system to the market. However, till date, this has just been a concept in definition but now it seems that the industry is planning out seriously thereby taking some concrete actions in bringing up the super-high-speed-data.

This means that the world-wide carriers have to work out how they would could push to bring this fast data communication. The new “5G” technology would deliver very short latency, deliver better power efficiency and very fast throughput. Tests conducted so far in this direction have been successful in delivering data speeds more than 500Mbps with one-fifth of the latency tat we currently have on a 4G LTE network. This is mostly achieved with high frequency radio bands having a shorter range. This issues can further be overcome working on the antenna technology.

The good news is that the world’s second largest switchgear maker Huawei  has signed a MOU with Russia’s second largest carrier MegaFon in order to build a trial 5G network and is likely to be made operational during the FIFA World Cup 2018.

This would be a new developing platform for MegaFon to develop its own direction in this niche as this would slowly be adopted across the globe. This new test-setup would require a large scale user participation with M2M devices. Huawei has itself established as a strong player in the mobile segment and mobile technologies and it is said that the test terminal equipment used in trial zones would cover about 11 cities.

source: Light Reading

Huawei teams up with Russia’s MegaFon for developing 5G