regardless of whether you're one of those diehards who's first in line at
the Apple Store it always seems to feel like no matter what kind of mobile
technology that you have in your pocket it quickly becomes yesterday's news and
that may never be more evident than right now as telecommunications
providers worldwide are working on
5G which might be just as big of a deal as when we marveled at being able to
look at full fat web pages on Tiny phone
screens oh H come on Luke another G just
after LTE became super widespread well
while it's admittedly a bit tricky to keep up with all the freaking different
Wireless standards and the G's and what they all mean and all that kind of stuff
which you can learn more about up here the industry is hoping that 5G will be
good enough to end constant talk of what the next G is good luck with that and
we'll hopefully only need incremental improvements over time kind of how
Windows 10 does that and they plan on updating forever see how that goes so
what the heck is supposed to be so special about 5G anyway well it's being
centered around the idea that the internet of things that is connected
devices that enable self-driving cars automated homes and more will become
very important in the near future and that mobile data networks will need to
be very robust to handle it all with
wearables appliances Vehicles mobile AR
and VR devices and so on one expected to push so much traffic through mobile data
networks with some devices needing as many as multiple gigabytes per second we
will need not only faster overall speeds but also lower latency imagine if your
self-driving car took half a second too
long to make a critical turn and suddenly you've got a huge dent in your
Fender or more frighteningly in your body 5G however is not only aiming to
reduce latency to as low is 1 millisecond to allow realtime operation
of important devices it also boasts a theoretical maximum speed of 20 gigabits
per second way faster than the quickest LTE networks today or even Google Fiber
connections of course this is a theoretical maximum and it looks like
the bare minimum for the average user will be about 100 megabits though again
this is still quite a bit faster than real world performance of many LTE
deployments part of this awesomeness is due to 5gs usage of higher frequency
waves which also gives it a much greater capacity for beam forming meaning
signals can be focused onto areas where there's more data traffic compared to
existing cellular antennas many of which are just omnidirectional and just kind
of send signals out without regard for where usage is actually concentrated
which is not good combine that with massive mimo which will allow many users
to share the same connection simultaneously with multiple antennas on
a transmitter similar to the newer mu
mimo networks for home Wi-Fi connections
and you'll have a network that is not only quicker but also has better
throughput so the quickly growing number of things connected to the mobile
internet don't become bottlenecked in fact the industry is hoping to have a
million devices supported per square kilometer possibly meaning no more
delays at places like concerts conventions or sporting events of course
this is a very ambitious project so it's not available quite yet current
projections have 5G hitting the market sometime in 2019 with it becoming
widespread around 2025 since providers not only are trying
to make 5G a more uniform standard than
what exists today to ensure better compatibility around the world but they
also need time to build more infrastructure that infrastructure would
include Signal Boosters since 5G shorter wavelength means it's more prone to
Signal degradation across great distances but even though most of us
will have to wait a while to experience 5G trials are already underway in a few
places in the United States and small scale deployments are expected at the
2018 and 2020 Olympics to give attendees
an early look at the tech before it reaches the mainstream so in summary
don't chunk your LTE phone just yet but don't be surprised if in a few years
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