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Fifth Generation Mobile Communication Network

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Edited by Leslie Fletcher, Monday, 6 Feb 2017, 12:49

As the final part of TU100 Block 1 Part 1 Activity 8, "communicating on the move," I selected a 5G news story from the Economic Times.

5G is expected to be available in 2020 and they are claiming the whole content of a DVD can be transmitted in a fraction of a second!

Minoru Fujishima Professor at Hiroshima University in Japan said; "This year, we developed a transmitter with 10 times higher transmission power than the previous version's. This made the per-channel data rate above 100 Gbit/s at 300 GHz possible". http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/56996124.cms

I have to ask the question, how on earth are they going to develop the processing capability, internal storage and battery life in the next generation of mobile phones to accommodate this among of data streaming?

We are talking three years away I suppose, so I await with interest!

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