5G+ is the new idea with which the operators have baptized the latest evolution of 5G that is made available to users. Technically it is called 5G SA (Stand Alone), but it is also known as real 5G or complete 5G, although beyond the terms used, we are going to focus on the novelties and advantages that 5G+ really brings.
5G+ first came to Spain thanks to Orange and five months later Movistar was the next to open it commercially to its customers for free, although its true advantages are going virtually unnoticed, and possibly because the 5G+ is more designed for companies and industry.
If you expect more speed and less latency on your mobile, 5G+ is not necessary
5G is about much more than higher speeds or lower latency. In fact improving mobile broadband was the main goal of the 5G NSA that has been deployed so far in Spain.
the 5G faster (up to 1.6 Gbps) is achieved with NSA in the 3.5 GHz band, 5G with better indoor coverage is achieved with NSA in the 700 MHz band, and NSA also supports a larger number of simultaneously connected devices, and brings latency improvement whose lower delay benefits video calls, online gaming, remote work, or live video streaming, and will serve to maximize the potential of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality of events in real time.
The use of the different bands is supported by both 5G NSA and 5G SA.
So what does 5G+ or 5G SA bring? If we stick to the advantages for smartphone users, we can expect lower consumption of batteryelderly security in communications, and another small push in improving latency, although the lowest will be for Industry. In the more distant future, thanks to 5G+, we will also have a new evolution of calls thanks to VoNR and an increase in upload speed.
So the increase in the autonomy of the phone will be the most striking of the advantages of 5G in mobile phones, and those who will be able to benefit will be those who are in a city with 5G+ and also have a approved mobile (Most current smartphones are 5G+ compatible, but few have been approved by operators.) At the moment, they are the following:
cities | Approved mobiles | |
|---|---|---|
Movistar | Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga, Seville, Palma de Mallorca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Ávila, Segovia, Castellón, El Ferrol and Vigo. By the end of 2023, it hopes to reach most cities with more than 250,000 inhabitants, and other smaller cities. | |
Orange | Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao, Alicante, Sabadell, Hospitalet, Castellón, Valladolid, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife, Zaragoza, Alcorcón, Leganés, Badalona, Sant Adrià de Besós, Santa Coloma de Gramanet, A Coruña, Badajoz, Barakaldo, Cádiz, Huelva, Jaén, Logroño, Málaga, Pamplona, Vigo and Vitoria. | samsung Xiaomi |
The greatest potential of 5G+ is for the Industry
Was this all that the expected real 5G or full 5G brings? No. But the rest of its great advantages will no longer influence smartphone users, but the Industry and companies. And that’s why it’s so important. Because it will open the way to a more connected future and new possibilities that are opened up with technologies such as:
- Thanks to MEC or Edge Computing, data processing moves from the cloud to the edge of the network. In this way, latency is reduced to minimums unattainable in any other way, making the connection is made in near real time.
- The possibility of creating different independent mobile networks, to provide them with different requirements in terms of speed, latency or energy consumption, and that give support to guarantee the provision of critical services is what he gets network slicing. In this way, for example, the networks that support the autonomous car or emergency services could continue to function, even if the Internet connection of mobile phones were to go down.
These technologies that arrive with the plus of 5G, open new use cases like:
- factory automation and logistics centers to make them smarter and efficient.
- pave the way for the autonomous driving increasing safety in the automotive industry.
- Perform remote surgical operations, either in remote locations or from ambulances.
- TV remote production and television signal transmission.
- Control of remote drones and with Artificial Intelligence capacity, to, for example, detect faults in the electrical network, for precision agriculture,…
- massive IoT 5G, adopting the lowest low consumption or the highest instantaneity, depending on the needs of the internet of things.
And that’s not all. Because later the advanced 5G will arrive, with another good handful of novelties.
Movistar’s fastest 5G will reach 1,000 towns
As we said, the arrival of 5G will be important for the development of Industry 4.0, but the truly important thing about Telefónica’s announcement for its mobile phone users is the great boost that has given to ‘high-performance 5G’the one that is capable of reaching speeds of up to 1.6 Gbps, and that is achieved with both 5G NSA and 5G SA.
The requirement to achieve up to 1.6 Gbps is to make use of the 3.5 GHz band and Movistar has accelerated its deployment in recent months so that it is already available in more than 700 towns, and its goal is to reach 1,000 locations with the fastest 5G at the end of the year 2023.
Thus, Movistar has become leader in the fastest 5G deployment thanks to the installation of 60% more antennas than Orange, and 140% more than Vodafone. According to data collected by mobile antennas, operators currently have the following antennas deployed:
Faster 5G (n78) | 5G with more coverage (N28) | |
|---|---|---|
Movistar | 2,685 | 5,413 |
Orange | 1,649 | 6,384 |
vodafone | 1,114 | 3,948 |
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