5G Wireless Race Heats Up

Barcelona, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 27th Feb, 2018 ) :The race to bring super-fast 5G wireless services to market is heating up with the first commercial deployments of the much-anticipated technology expected at the end of the year.

Talk about 5G's potential to pave the way to a world of self-driving cars, lightening-fast video downloads and smart cities have dominated the Mobile World Congress for years. But at the event in Barcelona this year, companies were full of concrete announcements of early versions of 5G uses.

The first commercial 5G roll-outs begin this year and next in the United States, Korea and Japan, and the wireless industry is counting on the new technology to trigger a wave of growth in equipment sales and mobile services.

Much of what is being billed as 5G in fact "resembles more LTE++", or an improved version of the existing 4g network in use in most developed nations, said Carole Manero, director of studies at IDATE, a French think tank on the digital economy. "There is a lot of marketing use of 5G," she added.