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> negotiations are expected to persist until at least 2019, so 5G cellphone networks will not become widespread in the United States or elsewhere until well int
by roymurdock 11y ago
> negotiations are expected to persist until at least 2019, so 5G cellphone networks will not become widespread in the United States or elsewhere until well into the next decade.
Worth noting that Nokia and NTT DoCoMo will be making efforts to get an outdoor 5G network in place in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
3/2/15: The companies said they have achieved super-fast data transmission speeds of higher than 2 gigabits per second in a joint indoor trial using Nokia Networks' radio technology operating in the 70 gigahertz spectrum band. [1]
Nokia demonstrated 5G on their commercially available Airscale base station at MWC this year. [2]
[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-telecoms-mwc-ntt-docomo-idUSKBN0LY0FD20150302 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-telecoms-mwc-ntt-docomo-id...
[2] http://networks.nokia.com/news-events/press-room/press-releases/nokia-is-first-to-run-5g-on-a-commercially-available-base-station-mwc16 http://networks.nokia.com/news-events/press-room/press-relea...