Saturday, June 01, 2019

5G and Data Caps, BBC Finds the limits of 5G in a demo broadcast via 5G in Covent Garden, London


EE a UK cellular provider, one of the first to offer 5G services, launched its 5G network in six cities across the United Kindom, Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, and Manchester. So BBC stepped in to demo and show us the virtues of 5G and the capabilities since 5G is brand new and except for the few outside the carriers and tech companies are yet to experience the capabilities.
The above video (Reporter Rory Cellan-Jones doing a live report during its BBC Breakfast program that was streamed over EE’s 5G network on last Thursday.) is broadcast live over 5G and if we were not told so, we would not have known. The transmission from Covent Garden, London achieved 260MB throughput.
Then the reality hit the scene, the cellular equipment provided by Huawei, the BBC Breakfast team was using to stream the broadcast suddenly stopped working. After a 15 minutes of delay,  it was found the problem was not with the equipment but with the 5G network; the SIM card used for the live stream had simply reached its data cap, shutting down the broadcast.
So for those who are eagerly waiting for 5G, this is a problem that many will inevitably experience once they start streaming 4K Netflix movies to their phones.Unless you are very rich or have a hefty telecom budget, better watch 4K movies at home.

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