5G will boost multiple sectors

The fifth generation of mobile telecommunications (5G), which Greece moves a step closer to on Wednesday with the auction of available bandwidth, is based on higher frequencies and on a greater section of the frequency spectrum, allowing for data to reach a higher number of appliances compared to the past, and faster too.

That advantage, market professionals say, will form the basis for new business models, whereby devices that are interconnected through sensors will be able exchange data.

The shorter response time compared to 4G - i.e. the time required for a piece of information to travel from A to B and back - is set to expand the potential of devices and allow for new wireless applications. For example, it takes a 5G network to schedule driver-less buses - as the City of Trikala has done since last December, when Vodafone Greece launched a pilot program in the...