Chinese technology company, Huawei, partnered with Japan’s DOCOMO network has successfully tested the 5G network technology in large scale. It serves as an important step in promoting the new dynamic generation cellular, 5G network.

The world’s first large-scale 5G network technology field trial

Specifically, last year, experts at DOCOMO and Huawei joined the experiment in an outdoor test in Chengdu (China). In this field trial, Huawei can transmit a live video of the operation to its booth at CEATEC JAPAN trade exhibition in Makuhari Messe Exhibition Centre, Chiba (Japan). The trial aims to test multi-user supporting technology, the first large-scale test. They simultaneously connected 24 devices in the macro-cell mobile communication environment. This is a new technology proposed by Huawei. The average download speed is 1.34Gbps. It even reach the download speed up to 3.6Gbps in a 100MHz ultra-wide-band channels.

This year, once again, these two companies co-operated to carry out another field-trial test of 5G network in Yokohama, Japan. A total of 11.29GB was successfully sent in just one second thanks to the “macro cell coverage of a real urban application scenario”. Huawei explained that they used a base station working in the 4.5 GHz and 200 MHz bandwidth to achieve 0.5-millisecond latency. That is 10 times faster than that of LTE.

This success is a milestone of telecommunication history that both Huawei representative and Vice President and Managing Director of Docomo had to agree that it will decide the future of the 5G network. They also promise that Docomo’s 5G network will soon be commercialized in 2020 in Japhan. Besides, this event is a trigger to AT&T, a US carrier. They have announced their plan to finalize their 5G network standard in 2017 instead of 2018 as leaked before. They also hope to release the network in 2019, earlier than Docomo.

 5G network technology utilization prospect

Since the first mobile phones to 4G LTE, the telecommunications industry has changed a lot in the past few decades. This new technology will bring the world a new level of Internet experience. It urges phone manufacturers to produce handsets supporting this innovation. With its super speed, 5G network will probably eliminate wifi network and become the standard network  all over the world. Let’s wait and see!