{"id":25593,"date":"2018-03-28T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T08:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/blog\/?p=25593"},"modified":"2025-12-12T00:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:39:59","slug":"5g-mobile-technology-is-coming-to-cities-roads-and-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/blog\/en\/2018\/03\/5g-mobile-technology-is-coming-to-cities-roads-and-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"5G mobile technology is coming to cities, roads and highways"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fifth wave of mobile technologies, known simply as 5G<\/strong>, is still a few years away, although it is already at the proposal stage, with standards being defined. It will be fully rolled out from 2019-2020, but several pilot projects are already running, and tests began on some potential technologies in 2016 in Finland, China and several other Asian countries.<\/p>\n

London is also running a pilot project since last year. And in Spain, Telef\u00f3nica has started to use the technology in January 2018 in \u00abliving laboratories\u00bb in pilot cities<\/a> such as Segovia and Talavera de la Reina. The aim is not to lag behind and understand in the field how this technology can affect different elements in the various businesses: infrastructures, users, vehicles or any other.<\/p>\n

There are two basic characteristics of 5G that users will perceive: speed<\/strong> and low latency<\/strong>. Speeds will be hundreds of times higher, or even a thousand times higher for certain applications. Latency will be reduced so as to be basically imperceptible. This is the technical term that refers to the \u2018delay\u2019 experienced by signals travelling over the web. In other words, device responses will be almost instantaneous, at something under 5 milliseconds, and ultraquick, at up to 10 gigabits per second.<\/p>\n

All of this will be achieved using a network of smaller but denser telephone cells<\/strong>, using different bands of the radioelectric spectrum than are used today. Which means that aerials will need to be adapted, as will buildings and other infrastructures. And there will be advantages, such as improvement in accuracy in triangulation and differential GPS (using fixed signals, in addition to the conventional GPS satellites).<\/p>\n

Working groups in all areas<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The 5G\u00a0Infrastructure Public Private Partnership<\/a> (5G PPP) is one of the groups on which the European Commission is working together with operators, manufacturers and service providers. Some of the ambitious aims set in relation to infrastructures are:<\/p>\n