5G isn’t just on the way – as of 2020, it’s here. Today you can go out and buy yourself a 5G-ready handset, and enjoy blazing fast 5G speeds on your mobile network, assuming you’re stood in one of the spots in the country that are covered – a list that’s grown strongly, and will get bigger in 2020, but still has a lot of limitations.
While you might think 4G is fast enough for your sports streaming and your Twitter browsing, 5G is on a whole new level: expect average download speeds of 150-200Mbps (almost 10 times faster than 4G) and peak speeds of 1Gbps (more than six times the maximum rate of 4G). As technology improves, 5G should get faster still.
And it’s not just about raw speed: latency (the lag between requesting something from the web and actually getting it) should improve by three or four times compared with 4G. Webpages and videos will appear in a snap, and apps that require content from the cloud (like VR or AR experiences) should load up almost instantly.
5G vastly improves on bandwidth too, which means your phone won’t suddenly be unable to get a connection when you’re at a sports stadium or a music gig – there will be plenty of connectivity to go around, no matter how many people get crowded into one place.
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