A 5G WORLD IS ON THE HORIZON

(-00-05 they say 5G is going to completely change our lives – from as simple to gaming, to

-06-07 driving, to as complex as medical care. )

-08-11 this shift will be a decade upgrade for our wireless systems.

-12-15 now, that all sounds great but what is it and when can I get it?

(-15-20 well, there’s a brand new, second generation, cellular module from the current leading
chip

-20-23 company Qualcomm that boasts the Almighty power of

-23-25 5G speeds for your phone. )

-25-29 except, we all don’t exactly have 5G phones yet, nor a 5G mobile network.

-30-33 however, this might be the year all that change.

-33-37 if you’re just being brought up to speed, 5G, is known as the fifth generation of wireless

-37-38 network communication.

-39-43 every time the technical rules that define the inner workings of cellular networks changes,

-44-48 we get a new “generation, “or “G” of technology, meaning to reap the benefits

-48-53 people have to buy whole new phones, and carriers will need to install new transmission
equipment

-53-55 to deliver the speeds they promised.

-55-1:01 when we got 1G it was for voice calls only, but then 2G gave us text messages, 3G added

-1:01-06 that multimedia support that we can’t imagine being without, like vidchats and faster
speeds,

-1:07-13 and now we have 4G – which has all the features of 3G but an added bump of speeds from
14

-1:13-17 Mbps to 100Mbps which changed the game.

(-1:18-24 now we have video chats in HD, HD mobile TV, and live streamed apps)22 but this next
one is

-1:24-25 gonna be big.

-1:25-30 5G is anticipated to give users the fastest connectivity they’ve ever experienced.

-1:31-35 its thought to be so fast it’d compete with our current fibre optic cables we have in

-1:35-38 our homes, and about ten to hundred times faster than the phone you currently have in

-1:38-39 your hand.

(-1:40-45 but other than the major benefits of downloading “8K”videos in seconds,)43 and using
VR and
-1:45-51 AR seamlessly (goodbye buffering) why does the world want data coming in so fast?

-1:51-57 well, 5G connectivity promises reduced latency, or lag time, to practically zero.

-1:58-2:01 meaning devices can communicate with each other in nearly real-time.

-2:01-06 we’re talking about major improvements in the responsiveness in devices that use sensors

-2:06-11 to make important decisions; like self-driving cars that need to suddenly brake, or
industrial

-2:11-16 robots that can be sent to hazardous areas and be controlled remotely from anywhere in

-2:16-19 the world or better yet, anything in the healthcare field.

(-2:19-24 from telemedicine, precision surgical robots, to remote surgery, or even virtual physical

-2:24-25 therapy sessions.

-2:26-28 all this without any data slow down. )

-2:28-31 but wait, how does any of this work?

-2:31-36 well, 5G system will run on smaller what they call, cell sites, that divide their territory

-2:36-37 into different sections.

(-2:37-43 then, exchanges between cell sites and devices are made with encoded data, through
radio waves,

-2:43-46 called OF DM,.)44 This encoding isn’t much different from

-2:46-50 what 4G LTE uses, but the frequencies they use within the spectrum are.

-2:51-56 right now the low-band spectrum that 4G LTE travels on is overly crowded 56(and
therefore

-2:56-58 we can only expect speeds up to 2Gs.)

-2:59-3:04 which, by the way, doesn’the seem too bad running on Verizon visible for only
$40/month,

-3:05-06 but we can get that more later on.

-3:06-09 5G can currently travel on a couple of kind of airwaves.

-3:10-12 one low-band frequency and one high-frequency.

-3:12-17 The plans are for low-band frequency 5G to operate through 4G cell sites that companies

-3:17-18 already have in place.

-3:19-23 but the encoding will be more flexible and use a bigger channel size to get up to 50

-3:23-25 pecent better speeds than LTE.

-3:25-26 this isn’t too bad.

-3:27-32 but since we want the multi-gigabite, ultra-fast, speeds, we’re going to use higher
frequencies
-3:32-34 on the millimeter wave spectrum.

(-3:35-40 now it slightly varies, but millimeter waves are signals estimated to be above 24GHz or

-3:40-44 30GHz range where there’s enough spectrum available to create big channels for very

-3:44-45 high speeds. )

-3:46-50 but what researchers have been struggling with is the fact that these wavelengths are

-3:50-53 easily blocked and can only go very short distances.

-3:54-55 so a new infrastructure is needed.

-3:56-4:00 that’s why we have to get the small cell sites.58( Hundreds, if not thousands of lower-
power

-4:00-05 base stations (outputting only 2-10 watts each) will have to be built in and around city

-4:05-07 homes to keep the connectivity in place. )

-4:08-12 there are select places around the U. S. That actually already have some of them, BUT we

-4:12-15 still need our devices to upgrade to get the speeds we want.

-4:15-17 this is where the Qualcomm chip comes in.

-4:17-21 Qualcomm is a wireless chip maker and they’ve been the forefront of advancements in
chip

-4:21-23 technology since the 3G era.

(-4:24-29 their new one, creatively called Snapdragon X55 5G, is a millimeter wave modem that
would

-4:29-33 run along their new millimeter wave antenna the QTM525..

-4:34-38 the idea is that these modules will help smartphones connect to the new and improved
network of

-4:38-42 5G AS WELL AS stay connected to the previous “g's” 2 through 4.)

-4:42-46 they anticipate that phone makers will embed three or four modules in their devices, so

-4:46-51 the device always gets a signal from one module even if the others are blocked by
something

-4:51-56 like your hand. And Qualcomm is not the only one, there are other brands that are in the

-4:56-58 works to make 5G happen for the consumer market.

-4:59-5:02 so, for us to really reap the benefits of this all-powerful 5G speed.

-5:02-04 the whole infrastructure needs to change.

-5:05-09 you can’t have the 5G phone without the 5G network, and you can’t have the 5G network

-5:09-13 until you get the mini cell towers, but companies are making massive strides.

-5:14-17 most of the phones and networks are planning to launch at the end of 2019.
-5:18-21 so keep your eyes peeled, and your phones ready to throw out.