If 5G should not take its first steps at our operators, 4G has time to evolve by then. Within months, we went from 4G Category 4, a rate of 150 Mbits, category 6 (300 Mbps) and Category 9 now made his debut with the Snapdragon 810 processor promising a theoretical speed of 450 Mbps on compatible networks.
However, before you get to the 5G, there are still other intermediaries such as 4.5G presented it a few months ago by Huawei and by 2016 is expected to increase the flow rates to 600 Mbps or 1 Gbps while ZTE is currently testing pre-5G. But that may well mean therefore that term?
As stated in their final communiqué, ZTE wants to be the first company in the world to test the pre-5G before premarket. A technology that promises to achieve “new transmission capacity records,” enabling operators to provide a “similar experience to 5G on existing 4G phones in an accelerated time”.
Technically speaking, one wonders still how this is possible given that 4G modems built into our smartphones are limited to their own abilities. Especially since the company does not release figures for flows.
As he explained to us, thanks to MIMO antennas and 128 combined, ZTE uses a “multi-stream” transmission allowing the pre-5G achieve maximum throughput three times that of traditional base stations and five times higher than conventional systems.
Also according to the Chinese manufacturer, several international operators are interested in this technology. Huawei, which intends to launch its first 5G network for the World Cup 2018, the competition is tough and it is clear that both seek to be first.