UK researchers break speed record with 5G speeds of 1Tb per second

Researchers from the 5G Innovation Center (5GIC) at the University of Surrey have set a new world record for 5G speeds of 1 terabit per second, smashing the previous 5G speed record of 7.5GB/s achieved by Samsung, Computer World reported.

At the V3 Enterprise Mobility Summit, professor Rahim Tafazolli said, ''We have developed 10 more breakthrough technologies and one of them means we can exceed 1Tb/s wirelessly. This is the same capacity as fiber optics but we are doing it wirelessly.''

The 5G speeds of 1Tb/s were reached under lab conditions over a distance of 328 feet (100 metres) during tests that used transmitters and receivers built at Surrey, but Tafazolli said, ''We want to be the first in the world to show such high speeds.''

5G mobile communications would use the very high frequency spectrum, which was above 6 GHz and it had been predicted that it could ''support a wide variety of uses, ranging from financial trading and entertainment to gaming and holographic projections,'' to the internet of Things, to smart cars using it for communications to talk to ''street lights and other smart city services.''

The speed would allow downloading of a Blu-ray quality video in less than a second, but it would likely take some time before such speeds could be experienced on handsets.

Though the 5G Innovation Centre might have been able to achieve the staggering data transfer rate, it could be another five years or more before the technology was ready for actual use, betanews.com reported.

The record-breaking 5G speed was over 65,000 times faster than what could be hit over 4G and was achieved under laboratory conditions.

However, a public demonstration would not be likely until 2018.