A much-vaunted first demonstration of a 5G cellular network became a disappointment at a Hawaii technology summit, as the network was nowhere near as fast as expected. Chris Emmons, which set up networks for Verizon and AT&T at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Technology Summit, said they had only a short time to install a 100 MHz spectrum. That compared to the expected 5G spectrum of 400-800 MHz in a what a company representative called “the real world”, while a second said speeds should improve. All the 5G firms at the conference admitted that speeds were slow.
A much-vaunted first demonstration of a 5G cellular network became a disappointment at a Hawaii technology summit, as the network was nowhere near as fast as expected. Ericsson, which set up networks for Verizon and AT&T at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Technology Summit, said they had only a short time to install a 100 MHz spectrum. That compared to the expected 5G spectrum of 400-800 MHz in a what a company representative called “the real world”, while a second said speeds should improve. All the 5G firms at the conference admitted that speeds were slow.