{"id":10401,"date":"2015-10-21T09:54:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T08:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2015-10-21T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T08:54:18","slug":"government-offers-gbp1m-to-help-uk-businesses-harness-5g-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/government-offers-gbp1m-to-help-uk-businesses-harness-5g-mobile.html","title":{"rendered":"Government Offers GBP1m to Help UK Businesses Harness 5G Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next (5th) generation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> based Mobile Broadband technology is still roughly five years away, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped the Government getting an early start and today they&#8217;ve offered another \u00a31m to help encourage businesses to find innovative uses for the service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> services could be able to deliver a peak download speed of <strong>20Gbps<\/strong> (Gigabits per second), or 20,000Mbps if you prefer, but it&#8217;s not expected to begin a commercial deployment until around <strong>2020<\/strong>. At present there are plenty of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/first-large-scale-field-trial-of-5g-mobile-delivers-speed-of-3-6gbps.html\" target=\"_blank\">early prototype proposals<\/a> for the technology, but we&#8217;re still a couple of years away from seeing any kind of firmly agreed standard(s).<\/p>\n<p>However the Government, despite not knowing what a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> network may actually look like or require, has today set aside <strong>\u00a31 million<\/strong> for &#8220;<em>innovative projects to exploit opportunities created by a new 5G infrastructure<\/em>&#8220;.. whatever it may become.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>UK Government Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This competition aims to support businesses to develop 5G applications and services that will help the UK to be an early exploiter of 5G and a leader in the field.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Funded collaborative R&amp;D projects are expected to be across a broad range of areas but could include ones related to the Internet of Things, the tactile internet, mission-critical applications, new handset services, new mobile applications, connected media services, immersive and interactive content, and content distribution.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;<em>competition<\/em>&#8221; opens on <strong>7th December 2015<\/strong> (deadline for registration is 20th January 2016), although it will only accept applications (worth up to \u00a3220K each over 9-12 months) from businesses that are working with academic or research institutions and\/or communications providers (public sector organisations and charities involved in research can be a partner in a project).<\/p>\n<p>Apparently a briefing event for potential applicants will be held in London on 10th December 2015 (<a href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/5g-applications-and-services\" target=\"_blank\">details here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next (5th) generation of 5G based Mobile Broadband technology is still roughly five years away, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped the Government getting an early start and today they&#8217;ve offered another \u00a31m to help encourage businesses to find innovative uses for the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[406,472,60,38],"class_list":["post-10401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-5g","tag-business","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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