Samsung has made a breakthrough in the development of what may ultimately come to be 5G.
The technology giant claims it has found a way to use higher frequency millimetre-wave Ka bands, allowing mind-boggling amounts of data to be transferred at ultra fast speeds.
Samsung has said that the technology could be up to 100 times faster than current 4G network speeds, meaning that a FULL HD film could be downloaded in a matter of seconds, reports independent.co.uk.
With the world still adjusting to the fourth-generation of the mobile network, consumers needn’t worry about 5G just yet. Samsung says that it expects to commercialise the technology by 2020.
As 5G is currently undefined, Samsung’s research is simply an interesting piece of the technology puzzle – says Stephen Blum, telecommunications analyst and president of Tellus Venture Associates. “5G is likely to involve much smaller cell sizes including in-home femto cells and distributed small cells outdoors plus Wi-Fi offload,” Blum claims.
There are critics to the findings though. Roger Entner, principal analyst at Recon Analytics, told technewsworld.com: “The reports are so hazy around what Samsung has found that it makes it kind of a non-event.”
Entner added that while near unlimited throughput at high frequencies were mentioned, the two dimensions of power and range were not.
“Physical laws cannot be cheated. When you go up in frequency and modulation, you need to add power to keep the same range,” he explained.
