{"id":240914,"date":"2017-12-06T08:18:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T06:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=240914"},"modified":"2017-12-06T08:20:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T06:20:33","slug":"5g-is-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/240914-5g-is-coming-soon.html","title":{"rendered":"5G is coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5G will happen in 2019, according to executive vice president of Qualcomm Technologies,\u00a0Cristiano Amon.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest time for the authorisation of <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/178015-5g-means-20gbps-mobile-data-speeds.html\"><strong>5G standards<\/strong><\/a> by the ITU was 2020, but\u00a0Qualcomm is working with 40 other companies to speed up the standardisation.<\/p>\n<p>The process will be finished in the first half of 2019 and mass adoption will happen in 2020, said Amon.<\/p>\n<p>This follows Qualcomm releasing its <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/234130-qualcomm-achieves-5g-connection-with-chip-for-mobile-devices.html\"><strong>Snapdragon X50 5G modem<\/strong><\/a>, and a 5G New Radio smartphone reference design.<\/p>\n<p>Requirements the ITU laid down for 5G include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spectrum efficiency must be 3\u00d7 better than IMT-Advanced.<\/li>\n<li>The peak data rate must be better by a factor of 20.<\/li>\n<li>Area Traffic Capacity must be 100\u00d7 better than IMT-Advanced.<\/li>\n<li>The standard must work while travelling at 500km\/h.<\/li>\n<li>Network Energy Efficiency must be 100\u00d7 better.<\/li>\n<li>Latency must be 1 millisecond.<\/li>\n<li>Connection density must be 1 million connections per square kilometre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/234266-south-africas-first-5g-pilot-network-the-details.html\">South Africa\u2019s first 5G pilot network \u2013 The<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/234266-south-africas-first-5g-pilot-network-the-details.html\"> details<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5G will happen in 2019, said Qualcomm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":184874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19420,3524],"class_list":["post-240914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-5g","tag-qualcomm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}