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"At Telenor, we have been preparing for 5G for a number of years and we can finally share the technology with the families and companies of the Kongsberg Technology Library and we are now looking forward to testing and learning as much as possible with the pilot customers. "said Sigve Brekke, CEO of Telenor.
Telegiganten opened this week the first 5G network in Scandinavia. However, this is not a full commercial launch because Telenor thinks that will happen in 2020.
The currently switched network will serve as a pilot to test 5G technology, both technically and commercially, in collaboration with several partners.
Applied Autonomy, the startup company that provides control systems for self-propelled vehicles, is one of them. Five Kongsberg families are also included in the test.
This week's episode on the E24 podium, Olav Madland, the boss of Applied Autonomy, tells us how to test and use the Web. Sigve Brekke, CEO of the company, and Ingeborg Øfsthus, Telenor's Director of Technology, talk about the new mobile technology, what they are currently testing and how to win 5G, which will require huge investments in coming years.
Listen to the Kongsberg E24 podium: 5G – the mobile network, which is more than just speed and fun
5G has three main advantages over previous mobile technologies that we know as 4G and 3G:
- speed: While Telenor expects to be able to deliver about 70 megabits per second in navigation speed over the current 4G network, the 5G network can quickly deliver 1,000 megabits per second
- reply: While the signals only pass by a fraction of a second on the current mobile networks, the 5G is almost instantaneous. It allows you to use technology to control vehicles or military robots, which must be controlled with precise accuracy.
- splicing: The mobile network can be divided into several layers. This means, for example, that emergency services can have all the capacity and responsiveness needed in their part of the network, even in a festival area with thousands of passionate mobile users.
In addition to purely technological benefits, splicing allows mobile companies to monetize new methods, for example, by not only paying for the amount of data packaged. One can imagine that mobile operators will be able to charge extra for those who want to reserve capacity on the network or whose response time is particularly low.
The business models that we are actually going to see are not part of the mobile apps that would currently predict so much to the public.
Technology is still developing
Currently, Telenor has installed three 5G base stations in Kongsberg, about 1.5 kilometers from each other.
They operate at relatively high frequencies (3.5 and 1.8 GHz), which offer good capacity but a relatively short signal range. In the future, it appears that you are using lower frequencies than you would use elsewhere in the cellular network.
While Verizon, in the United States, launched a 5G service this fall that provides wireless broadband in some US cities, the technology is still in development.
"The standards continue to evolve and we had to work a little bit to get all the material needed for this pilot test," said Telenor's new technology director, Ingeborg Øfsthus.
For example, there are still no mobile phones compatible with 5G. Telenor, Verizon, and other players are now using modems and modules that provide pure data connectivity over the 5G network only.
"We expect the handsets will be available by the end of 2019, but we find that mobile manufacturers are always bringing news," she continued.
According to the director of technology, the 5G network also requires a major upgrade of the core network, namely the infrastructure behind each base station, although significant investment in the fiber and the l '. infrastructure have already been realized as part of the construction of the 4G network.
The government will spend 150 million euros to ensure new mobile frequencies and previous launches of 5G
Europe's fears are coming back
Like his predecessor, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Sigve Brekke also fears that Europe will find itself in the race for technologies in progress in the mobile sector.
While Baksaas pointed out how the smartphone (and in particular the introduction of the iPhone) helped the US mobile industry to take a big step forward and outperformed Europe, Brekke feared that the more fragmented industry of the Europe does the same thing in terms of 5G.
"We risk Europe's backlighting against Asia and the US It is therefore important that we are currently testing the use of this new technology," Brekke said. Kongsberg.
At the launch of 5G in Kongsberg, Telenor's chief emphasized that markets in the United States and Asia were characterized by fewer and larger numbers of players with significant divisions and financial resources, while European market was further divided and characterized by the fact that there were many more mobile companies. .
Therefore, it will also strive to tear Telenor and the Nordic countries off.
In addition to testing at Kongsberg, Telenor will also carry out two pilot tests in the Oslo area in 2019.
Telenor has also won a call from the EU, which means that, together with the British BT and Spanish Telefonica companies, they will test and exchange the experiences of several 5G tests all over Europe.
Listen to the Kongsberg E24 podium by following this link or search for the E24 podcast in your podcast player.
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