What are the limits of 5G?
A collaboration between Nokia and BT resulted in high quality, virtual reality, live feeds of a football match using 5G.
5G also has a predicted direct contribution of £7 billion a year in the first 6 years of it presumed 2020 launch.
With reports from O2 saying that 5G's economic benefits could be 'twice as fast as fibre', what are the limits of 5G?
More bandwidth: Less coverage
Despite 5G boasting a '100% coverage', having a higher bandwidth means that there will be less coverage, more telecommunications towers will be needed to keep up with the demand of signal and internet connectivity. As the evolution of the 'G' has progressed, the coverage has decreased.
Currently people on 4G are getting better reception in 3G areas ares there is a lower bandwidth, thus resulting in more coverage. This will be a continuing trend with the launch of 5G due to its incredibly high bandwidth, this means that its initial 100% coverage may not be as high as first thought.
Radio
The telecommunications towers that provided your mobile phone with signal, your radios and even the satellites that are orbiting Earth all communicate using radio frequencies; measured in GHz. 5G networks will transmit data in and around the range of 6 GHz, being already overcrowded with radio signals, there may be issues with receiving the data . Unfortunately until its 2020 implementation, we won't truly know.
Created by Sam Gaunt 2017
