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What is 5G?

5G will be a set of standards that define everything from the technology used to the speeds it will deliver. The integration of this 5G with hardware has been the interest of many companies. Intel is the latest to jump on board, as it wants to be able to offer hardware for next-generation phones, tablets and Internet of Things devices, and compete with companies such as Qualcomm. Last time around, Intel backed the wrong horse: WiMAX was basically a failure when LTE became the predominant 4G standard.
4G brought a considerable improvement in speed over 3G, but even in 2016 it’s still not available everywhere in the UK, and real-world speeds are nowhere near those figures, averaging out at around 15Mb/s
So we should expect 5G to get a lot closer to fixed broadband. Samsung has ran tests in 2014 and achieved speeds of 7.5Gb/s, which is over 30 times faster than 4G (in these kinds of tests). However, researchers at the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey have developed new technologies that have led to them reaching an astounding 1Tb/s at 100m in early 2015. That’s the same throughput as fibreoptic cable, but with no wires, and roughly 65,000 times faster than 4G.

Ofcom has said it expects that real-world 5G will deliver between 10- and 50Gb/s.
It almost goes without saying that you’ll need a new phone that’s equipped with 5G hardware. Just as with 4G, you can’t upgrade an older phone to support a new mobile standard: it's the networking chip inside which defines - and limits - its capabilities.

When is 5G arriving?

It’s still early days for 5G, the estimated date of release was 2020 by Ofcom , and other experts are predicting it may be 2021. The technology based nation South-Korea predicts the 5G release in 2017 and Verizon and AT&T are expected to start rolling out 5G networks in 2018 in the US.
There are still many challenges facing the development of 5G, including reducing latency so that the connection is more responsive and without the delay before the fast transfer speeds kick in.The team at Surrey says that this will enable you do things 4G can't do. In terms of coverage, it is expected that large cities will want to go for 5G first as seen before on 3G and 4G. So even in 2020, you may only get a super-fast 5G connection in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow to start with.

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