TRA set a roadmap 2016-2020 to achieve ‘fifth generation’ (5G) deployments at the earliest. A Steering Committee was established, under which three sub-committees worked to facilitate the process along with all stakeholders.
According to telecom service provider Du, the ‘fifth generation’ (5G) or International Mobile Telecommunications-2020 (IMT-2020) is the next generation of cellular network technology for mobile and fixed wireless applications. 5G is the evolution of 4G. It has an ability to manage huge capacities and to provide a faster, more reliable experience. As per technology company Cisco, 5G technology has a theoretical peak speed of 20 Gigabits per second (GBPS), while the peak speed of 4G is only 1GBPS.
As per the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the fifth generation of mobile technologies is expected to connect people, things, data, applications, transport systems and cities in smart networked communication environments. It should be able to transport a huge amount of data much faster, reliably connect an extremely large number of devices and process very high volumes of data with a minimal delay.
When deployed, 5G networks should be able to deliver more speed and capacity to support massive machine-to-machine communications and provide low-latency (delay) and a high-reliability service for time-critical applications. Based on trials, 5G networks are starting to demonstrate high performance in different scenarios such as dense urban areas and indoor hotspots.
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