I’m 8 miles out of the centre of Bristol and there’s farmland next to our estate. However we are right by Bristol Parkway station. The Three mast just pokes over the top of the other side of the railway embankment and isn’t line of sight of most of the house (slight hill in the way).
My phone and Huawei portable MiFi work best in the window on the 2nd or 3rd floor but sat here now on the 2nd floor behind an outside wall I’m still getting 36.9 down and 7.11 up. That’s only a smidgen less than my TT FTTC connection.
5G is going to be more about infrastructure for the IoT – and IoT includes big things like cars not just kettles. For what most people use their phones for 4G is more than enough and the rest is hype look at this Bristol to trial superfast 5G networks.
It’s a fundamentally different technology and the headline very fast speeds at very low latency is at very high frequency so will have small coverage and will be worse penetrating buildings. Here’s the reality of the “public trial” of 5G in Bristol:
“In March 2018 we are taking the challenge to deliver an end-to-end 5G network in Bristol’s Millennium Square and to demonstrate for the first time 5G services to the general public.
“We have worked closely with our strategic technology partners BT, CCS, Nokia and Zeetta Networks in order to deliver a truly unique 5G Test Network and we are very excited to create the world’s first public 5G experience.”
Event attendees will also have the opportunity of viewing a real time transmission sent from a connected autonomous vehicle (CAV), parked in Millennium Square for the duration of the weekend.
The public are involved but not participating. Not what you were expecting from the hype?
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