Beyond the Hype: Emerging 5G Technologies Aren’t Significantly Different From Existing LTE, Say Industry Leaders
BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: This is from Dave Burstein, a telecom geek/journalist/gadfly, and who frequently has some interesting observations about broadband technologies, and the politics behind them. In this pieces, he’s reporting on the thoughts of leaders in the mobile industry, to the effect
BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: This is from Dave Burstein, a telecom geek/journalist/gadfly, and who frequently has some interesting observations about broadband technologies, and the politics behind them. In this pieces, he’s reporting on the thoughts of leaders in the mobile industry, to the effect of just how overblown is the hype behind 5G wireless technologies.
No “Material Difference Between 5G & LTE”
Eric Xu, current Huawei Chairman, concludes “consumers would find no ‘material difference between 5G & LTE’.” Louise Lucas and Nic Fildes, Financial Times He added, “Since 4G is robust, we don’t see many use cases or applications we need to support with 5G.”
Last May, I reported similar thoughts from Telefonica CTO Enrico Blanco. In November, DT CTO Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, FT/Orange SVP Arnaud Vamparys, and BT CEO Gavin Patterson chimed in. The politicians & marketers screamed “5G Revolution.” The engineers knew better.
Andrus Anders and Roberto Viola at the EU, as well as Jessica Rosenworcel & Ajit Pai in the U.S., are still lying to themselves and too proud to face their errors.
Latency: Ericsson has promised LTE latency of 9 ms in 2018. AT&T’s 5G latency is 9-11 ms.
Speed: 4G LTE 2018 is hundreds of megabits, peaking over a gigabit. 90% of 5G on the way is midband, the same hundreds of megabits. Only 10-20% of the first few years will be millimeter wave, often a gigabit.
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Source: No “Material Difference Between 5G & LTE”
(Photo from 2016 Mobile World Congress by Kārlis Dambrāns used with permission.)
