So what is next to accomplish when you already are touching the horizon of infinity? This is the dilemma faced by many telecom giants today. At the Mobile World Congress 2015, many of the heads have been busy sharing ideas and prospects of future innovations involving 5G. The telecom companies are hanging to 5G as their life saving line in view of increasing market takeover by internet companies. Prospects of threat and failure always push to try the unknown and venture for the impossible.
But the irony of the situation is no one can aptly put or define what 5G is actually going to be. Tom Wheeler expresses these uncertainties when he said that 5G was like a painting by Pablo Picasso. When countries all over the world are still in initial stages of rolling out 4G networks, companies like Huawei, Telekom, AT&T and Ericsson are rushing to explain the need for this next generation technology.
These companies are attempting to define a technology that has peak data transmission speed of 10 gigabytes, quite a lot of more what 4G is offering. 5G is the future technology that aims to achieve a latency rate of one millisecond, which paints a future world where driverless cars will be an everyday sight. The scenario is far too muddled to make an accurate guess about how 5G will change the existing standards and what effect will it have on 4G. It will, however, offer sophisticated cloud marketing, much more flexible spectrum possibilities and increased coverage in dense environments.
The phone industry is hopeful to roll out this technology by 2020. Heavy investments have been made by leading telecom companies in a bid to outshine one another in the race to take control of the world of communication, and 5G is expected to change the whole tech environment. We can only wait in anticipation and think about the limitless and exciting possibilities.
