Although the existing 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network is yet to become the mainstream, Samsung has already started working on the next level. The company announced on Monday that it will launch the new 5G mobile communications system by 2020, which will provide data transmission up to several hundred times faster than current 4G networks.
Deemed to be the next-generation of the 4G LTE network technology, the 5G mobile communications technology will offer data transmission speeds of up to several tens of Gbps per base station. Samsung has claimed that after the 5G network being commercialized, it will be capable of “ultra-high-speed data transmission,” which will be even much faster than the 4G LTE-Advanced technology that will launch later this year.
According to Samsung, its upcoming 5G service is “the world’s first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimeter-wave Ka bands for cellular communications.” There was a belief that the millimeter-wave bands had limitations in transmitting data over long distances. But the new solution provided by the South Korean tech giant is claimed to be a successful fix for the same.
“The millimeter-wave band is the most effective solution to recent surges in wireless Internet usage. Samsung’s recent success in developing the adaptive array transceiver technology has brought us one step closer to the commercialization of 5G mobile communications in the millimeter-wave bands,” said Samsung executive vice president and head of digital media and communication R&D, ChangYeong Kim.
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