Nepal Telecommunications Company (NTC) has postponed its plan to test the 5G service.
The company had earlier announced to launch 5G test from todday. However, the plan has been put on hold as the number of mobile phones that are compatible with the 5G service is low among its users, according to the company spokesperson Shobhan Adhikari.
"We have completed the preparations but the plan has been put on hold due to technical reasons," he said, adding that the 5G devices that are compatible with the 2,600MHz required by the system are found very low in the market. "That’s why the plan has been put on hold now."
5G is a next-generation technology believed to change the way people live and work at present.
According to telecom experts, the network will be around 10-100 times faster than the existing 4G networks. "This improvement in the network could lead towards a wave of possibilities for new kinds of tech products in different sectors like health, business and automobile to name a few," they claim.
Mobile networks have evolved continuously for over time from 2G, 3G, 4G before the 5G.
Most of the Nepalis are currently using a 4G network, but Nepal Telecom and also the private telecom service provider, Ncell, are working on to provide 5G network services in Nepal also.
The government has recently allowed Nepal Telecom to carry out a test about the use of 5G internet technology in Nepal. Likewise, Worldlink, an ISP company, has launched a 5G wi-fi service with limited coverage.
If Nepal Telecom, Ncell and WorldLink succeed to provide 5G services in Nepal, the country will be the first to bring the 5G network in the South Asia.
Many countries are already competing to have the fastest, largest and more efficient 5G network. The 5G networks offers businesses access to lightning-fast data transfer speeds and improved network reliability.
According to the experts, the 5G network uses a type of encoding, which is similar to the encoding that 4G uses. But the air interface is designed for much lower latency and greater flexibility than 4G.
A 5G network can be built in different methods, mostly depending on the type of bands a wireless carrier has, they claim, adding that a low-band network will have a wide coverage area but will only be 20 per cent faster than 4G, and a high-band network will have superfast speed but has a smaller range and the signal gets disrupted through hard surfaces. "There are also mid-band networks that balance the speed and coverage."
Along with speed, a 5G network will also provide greater bandwidth, which means it can handle many more devices at once than the previous networks.
The 5G technology is very quick and is capable of supporting a large number of devices that can help digitise many industries. It will also help in preparing for the new wave of automation and AI.
But a consumer also have to have a 5G-enabled device to get the benefits of a 5G network.
Though most of the big companies like Samsung, Apple, Huawei, OnePlus, and Xiaomi have already launched devices that support a 5G network, the Nepali consumers with 5G devices that are compatible with the 2,600MHz required by the system are found very low in the domestic market, which has forced the Nepal Telecom to put its plan on hold.
But the 5G network also has some drawbacks like it will drain the battery quickly, due to which the 5G-enabled phones must have significantly large battery storage. The service seekers also have to invest in infrastructure and devices to be compatible to the 5G network, which is added cost for them.
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