Verizon will be the first network to test 5G wireless in 2016
Verizon is ready to get started with its new 5G wireless technology. Verizon, the country's biggest wireless network, will begin testing its 5G wireless technology within the next year. It was expected that the next-generation wireless technology will be commercialized by 2020, but Verizon is already getting ahead of its competition. The trials will make Verizon as the world's first network to move to 5G.
Verizon said that 5G signal, on its peak performance, could reach 50 times faster than the current LTE signal, and lag of just under 10 milliseconds. This means that an average movie will only take 15 seconds to download in 5G, compared to six minutes via 4G. There is no buffering to be expected in 5G, so watching television shows via streaming will be okay, even if there are millions of other watchers that are viewing, too.
Besides being the fastest wireless technology, 5G is also considered to be more responsive and more power efficient, which is important for smartphone users. According to CNET, the technology is so precise that movements of a surgeon in Tokyo can be transferred real time to the other side of the world.
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Although it is still early to conclude what 5G can give, there are a lot of possibilities that this technology can do, with its super fast speed. In the past few years, 4G technology gave way to an explosion of new gadgets and technology, and people can expect the same with 5G.
Verizon's chief information and technology architect, Roger Gurnani, confirmed that 5G will give way to technologies we can't possibly "describe," according to CNET. "We can't possibly envision the full range of disruptive products and services. But we have some possibilities," Gurnani explained.
"5G is no longer a dream of the distant future," he finally said.
