¿Qué significa la "G" en 5 G?

Lo escucha todo el tiempo: "¡Nueva red móvil 5 G!", pero no siempre hay mucha información sobre qué es en realidad la "G". ¿Qué significa?

Comencemos con la respuesta más simple: "G" significa "generación". A medida que las redes móviles actualizan su infraestructura, abren nuevos niveles de conectividad. Por lo tanto, más G significan más datos, más velocidad.

Where the question gets more interesting is in the finer points of what separates one generation of mobile network from another, how it gets built, and what it means for the average user.

Altice Mobile has all of the “G” information for Optimum customers to better understand what their devices are capable of.

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Where does the "G" come from?

The world has come a long way since the days of having a phone hooked up to your car and texting in T9Word on a flip phone. Cell phones specifically have evolved with each new era, which is actually where the "G" comes in.

Each generation of network technology sets a standard for communication signals for mobile devices to meet the guidelines set out by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

So a "G" update means that there's a new international standard for mobile network capacity which will push technology into a new era. A medida que una actualización se afianza en el mercado global para usuarios de dispositivos móviles, las generaciones anteriores se vuelven obsoletas y desactualizadas. That's why you hardly ever hear about 3G connectivity anymore - at least not in the US.

How did we get to 5G?

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To understand where we’re heading with 5G, let’s look back and see how each previous generation defined its own era.

1G - In the 1980s, cellular devices delivered sound using an analog voice signal with a continuous frequency and amplitude. Transmission wasn’t very efficient, and cellular phones of this era were viewed as luxury items due to high connection costs. Además, no existía Internet, por lo que la voz era la única señal enviada por celular. If you’ve ever wondered how the giant brick cell phone from the popular Saved by the Bell meme worked, it was likely connected via 1G.
2G - R U ready? En los años 1990, el mundo ingresó a la era 2G, que convirtió tanto la marcación por voz como por teléfono en una señal digital. Esto permitió a los usuarios de celulares no solo llamar, sino también enviar mensajes de texto por primera vez. This era was first marked by the existence of pagers, which gradually morphed into single cell phones that could call and text at the same time.
3G - The early 2000s welcomed the new millennium by diversifying the number of digital transmissions available to include mobile internet. Si bien no era tan rápida como todo el mundo está acostumbrado ahora, Internet en ese entonces todavía se basaba en gran medida en texto e imágenes fijas. So 3G was fine for what it needed to be, and people could do simple things like check a restaurant’s hours of operation before deciding where to eat.
4G - In the 2010s, 4G created widened the mobile network capacity to reflect the more broadband reality of an evolving internet. Esta generación dio a los teléfonos la capacidad de admitir TV móvil de alta definición, servicios de juegos, llamadas de videoconferencia, podcasts y más. El 4 G también vio el lanzamiento generalizado de las redes Long Term Evolution (LTE). LTE is the standard for wireless broadband communication for cell phones and data terminals today, and increased mobile broadband’s speed and capacity. 4G networks today might seem a little slow at times, but they can still complete internet applications as long as you have reception and a little patience.
5G - Thanks to a tremendous coordinated effort to upgrade cell towers and infrastructure around the world, we’re now entering the 5Gera. La última y mejor de todas las generaciones, la 5 G presentará las velocidades de descarga más altas y el mayor ancho de banda hasta el momento. Se prevé que este próximo paso evolutivo tendrá 1. {[# ]} mil millones de suscriptores en todo el mundo antes de 2025. From a connectivity and data speed standpoint, 5G will be the equivalent of having WiFi all the time.

Is there a 6G? What's next for mobile technology?

5G - Thanks to a tremendous coordinated effort to upgrade cell towers and infrastructure around the world, we're now entering the 5Gera. La última y mejor de todas las generaciones, la 5 G presentará las velocidades de descarga más altas y el mayor ancho de banda hasta el momento. Se prevé que este próximo paso evolutivo tendrá 1. {[# ]} mil millones de suscriptores en todo el mundo antes de 2025. From a connectivity and data speed standpoint, 5G will be the equivalent of having WiFi all the time.

However, it will be up to the ITU to introduce exactly how 6G will look like. The current timeline puts the framework for 6G to be finished around 2028 and to rollout in 2030.

While the world waits for 6G, 5G will keep us all connected in the meantime.

Good luck and happy sharing!

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