The LTE network (4G) in Germany is not yet an old age because there is already a new mobile phone standard in the starting blocks. 5G is said to have 100 times higher data rate than today's 4G networks – that would be up to 10,000 Mbit/s. But it will still take a while for the new mobile phone technology to arrive on the smartphones of the consumer. For 2019, the current Ericsson Mobility Report of only four million 5G mobile radio connections worldwide is running out. But then everything should go very quickly: 2023 should be around one billion 5G mobile radio connections – 105 million of them in Western Europe.
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