5G record data speed

[Silent-Hunter]

Apparently researchers have gotten VERY high speeds out of their experimental 5G equipment: http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-31622297

 

[TrashyMG]

Yay I can use up my data plan in 10 seconds.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Oh they'd most likely need to make the limits much higher to match the new speed.

 

[ekianjo]

Oh they'd most likely need to make the limits much higher to match the new speed.

Isnt that in their benefit to make you pay much more instead ?

 

[Null]

Oh they'd most likely need to make the limits much higher to match the new speed.

Whether they'll actually do so is another matter.

 

[elwing]

Oh they'd most likely need to make the limits much higher to match the new speed.

Whether they'll actually do so is another matter.

don't worry, they'll do that... the more interesting question is: how will they adapt the price?

 

[Null]

^ Raise it massively is my guess.

 

[levi]

Meanwhile we're still sorting out 2G coverage here

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

My pandora is on -5G and is perfectly fine for what I'm doing.

 

[kasp]

It has said that 5G would be able to use very high-frequency spectrum - above 6 GHz - to run a range of services - from holographic projections to financial trading.

Wouldn't using such a high frequency make it pretty useless for a mobile network? They also only tested to 100 metres.  Sounds like an advancement in WIFI though.

Samsungs breakthrough sounded applicable for mobile networks, but that was 7 gigabits and did some wizardry with the higher frequencies and lower frequencies to make it happen.  

 

[levi]

Using higher frequencies makes the signal behave more like something that needs line of sight, whereas low frequencies propagate through gaps that are less than their wavelength iirc. It might mean this is relative poor at indoors coverage therefore.