Up to £35m from mobile operators, infrastructure providers and the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund gathered to fund research into 5G. This takes place soon after UK launched the 4G mobile communication technology.
The money would be used to create a 5G Innovation Centre. Prof Tafozolli, professor of mobile wireless communications and the director of Surrey University's Centre for Communications Systems Research, said that every year see the traffic double. Unfortunately capacity is not doubling every year. And that there is need to come up with technology, within the limited radio spectrum that will have, to accommodate this huge surge.
UK is therefore looking forward to have 5G networks by the year 2020, meanwhile they believe the current 4G would serve well.
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