UK telecom regulator mulls 6GHz spectrum use for 5G services by around 2020
Jan16
UK telecom watchdog Ofcom has today announced the beginning of a consultation with key industry players around how best to prepare the UK for an incoming wave of 5G services, which are predicted to start arriving in around 2020. The organization has mooted the possibility of using “very high frequency spectrum” in the 6GHz band to host services, which will likely include high-speed financial trading transactions, 4K entertainment and gaming, “holographic projections”, and a number of varied business uses. The theory behind using the higher-than-regular bands for mobile usage (sub-3GHz bands are generally used around the world for existing mobile data…
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