So 5G goes live in a few cities across the UK today (on EE). Personally I'm excited that it has the potential to be the end of landlines and the monopoly/stranglehold that Openreach has on the country's telecoms systems.
Is anyone here planning on being an early adopter?
I'm sure I heard something about iphones not working on the 5G band that EE are using, which strikes me as causing a bit of a spanner in the works of uptake.
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Some customers will find the new technology advantageous. Most probably will not. It will just make possible another bunch of capabilities that we do not need. Not exactly NEED.
The additional bandwidth needed for 5G will mean lighting up a lot more fibre with decent DWDM equipment; guess who makes a lot of "core" equipment in several operators?
5G is going to be a long expensive road, personally I'm not sure I see the actual benefits, "100mb/s to the handset" is pure vanity. I can stream 4K UHD with encoded audio to my TV at home with anything over 30 Mb/s and not see any buffering.
The AR features will need lower latency more than bandwidth this will mean building more data centres, the only operator who has the means to do this is EE, guess why? Oh yeah... BT.
There has never been a technology that allows users to off the shackles of the big operators, lets face it, how many home BB suppliers user fiber to the cabinet, yet you still have to pay line rental?? I'm with EE for home BB as they don't most of the others do. Many are Fibre to the exchange and so still rely on the Local Loop Unbundling technology and have their own DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) to serve you just the same as ADSL but with better onward connection from the exchange.
Sorry for the rambling post, but I think we have to accept that true 5G (or "new technology" as the operators term it) will be a while off, it's easy to have a few eNodeB's in heavily populated cities, and let's face it it wouldn't be the first time an operator re-termed the identifier on your phone screen when it was connecting on the old mechanism (Edge-3G-HSUPA etc)
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I've been away from the active side for a while, god knows what I'm going to have to get my head around when I finish putting up towers for a living. My head still hurts from 4G London rigging
I don't know about anyone else but I’m not planning to ditch my mobile for a new one anytime yet. I imagine 5G enabled ones are going to be selling at a massive premium for quite a while after launch.
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If I could start a business now, it would be tower strengthening/civils etc, that's going to get the lion's share of the money over the next two to three years. Either that or SDN app programming /traffic migration for all the intelligent services routing migration that's going to be needed. Especially in some operators where they're not even running VRF/MPLS across the whole core estate. I think the likes of X2 etc will stay on LTE for the next 4-5 years and 3G will be turned off while they will still keep some 2G stuff (I think critical infrastructure providers will keep it running for the distances even if most of it will be IP-ABIS) [/ramblemode]
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