So there is still a long way to go before telecom players find a standard on 5G. Time is running out, since according to the CEO of Nokia, we should witness the first rollouts in 2017, with a gradual increase in load until 2020. What is certain is that in 2018, some customers will enjoy the 5G at the Olympic Winter Games in South Korea in 2018. At Orange, which tests the 5G in France in Belfort on millimeter waves, officials believe that full-scale tests will continue in 2017 and 2018 and that it is necessary to count on a commercial deployment in 2020.
5G benefits
At the MWC, the demonstrations were practical, a sign that the technologies are almost ready, and that only the administrative side and standardization remain. Ericsson showed a moving terminal with a bit rate of 10 Gbps on the 15 GHz band that communicated with a station with 8 modules of 64 antennas each.
At T-Mobile, we could see a demonstration of a bit rate of 10 Mbps with a latency of 1 ms, but also a maximum throughput of 70 Gbps thanks to millimeter waves and three stations in MIMO. Verizon is expected to conduct tests this year before starting the deployment of 5G in 2017.