5G could download 30 movies in a SECOND: Scientists develop technology that is 65,000 times faster than 4G

In ten years we might look back at how we used to have to wait for films to download, or web pages to load, and wonder how we ever coped.

A team of researchers has developed a 5G data connection that is 65,000 times faster than current 4G technology.
The astonishing speed reached one terabit (125 gigabytes) per second – the equivalent of downloading about 30 movies in a single second.

The technology was developed by scientists from the University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC).
While comparable speeds have been seen in fibre optic cables before, this was the first test ever to achieve such a capacity wirelessly.
The team built their own transmitters and receivers, and then performed tests over a distance of 330 feet (100 metres).

The speeds far exceed anything achieved before for 5G, eclipsing the 7.5 gigabits (940 megabytes) per second speed achieved by Samsung in October 2014.
The team wants to begin testing their technology in public spaces by 2018, while a British release of 5G has been hinted at in 2020 by Ofcom.
‘We want to be the first in the world to show such high speeds,’ Professor Rahim Tafazolli, director of the 5GIC,’ told V3.
He added: ‘We have developed 10 more breakthrough technologies and one of them means we can exceed 1Tbps wirelessly.
‘This is the same capacity as fibre optics but we are doing it wirelessly.’
Some of the benefits of 5G include the possibility of playing holographic games in real-time with other smartphone users, or significantly improving time delays in financial trading.
Ofcom has said previously that it expects 5G to be capable of delivering 10 to 50 gigabits per second – but this later development would blow that estimate out of the water.

Source: dailymail.co.uk