5G will take off from 2021

Published on: December 3, 2018 / Update from: December 3, 2018 - Author: Konrad Wolfenstein

The LTE network (4G) in Germany is not yet a decade old and a new mobile communications standard is already in the starting blocks. 5G is said to have a data rate 100 times higher than today's 4G networks - that would be up to 10,000 Mbit/s. But it will probably be a while before the new mobile technology arrives on consumers' smartphones. For 2019, the current Ericsson Mobility Report assumes there will only be four million 5G mobile connections worldwide. But then everything should happen very quickly: by 2023 there should be around a billion 5G mobile connections - 105 million of them in Western Europe.

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