Vodafone is to trial the use of 5G as a way of providing home broadband access to people living in rural Ireland. The telecom company is to conduct tests in Roscommon, Gorey, Clonmel and Dungarvan covering 20,000 premises.
What is 5G exactly?
It’s the next – fifth-generation of mobile internet connectivity promising much faster data download and upload speeds, wider coverage and more stable connections.
Imagine being able to download a high-definition film in a minute or so.
Is it very different to 4G?
Yes, it’s a brand new radio technology, but you might not notice vastly higher speeds at first because 5G is likely to be used by network operators initially
The chief executive of Vodafone here said “5G mobile technology could be used as a complementary rather than a replacement solution for bringing high speed broadband to rural Ireland”.
