{"id":16972,"date":"2018-09-13T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T07:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=16972"},"modified":"2018-09-13T08:26:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T07:26:50","slug":"government-hints-at-future-uk-5g-mobile-testbeds-and-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/09\/government-hints-at-future-uk-5g-mobile-testbeds-and-trials.html","title":{"rendered":"Government Hints at Future UK 5G Mobile Testbeds and Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Government has this week posted a brief update on their \u00a3200m national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> Testbeds and Trials (5GTT) programme, which summarises all of their existing projects to test the future ultrafast wireless broadband technology and also hints at their plans for the next 12 months.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first commercial deployments of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> Mobile and Fixed Wireless technology, which with the right radio spectrum is capable of achieving multi-Gigabit broadband speeds, are expected to get underway toward the end of 2019 via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> (most likely using the 3.4 &#8211; 3.5GHz bands). But initial hardware support will be very limited and large-scale deployments won&#8217;t start until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> has released more spectrum by 2020 (e.g. 3.6GHz+, 700MHz etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Government&#8217;s 5GTT programme has been busy testing various applications for the new infrastructure. So far around \u00a316m from the budget has already been invested to setup one of the first end-to-end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> network&#8217;s via 5GUK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/07\/uk-gov-hands-16m-universities-2018-test-5g-mobile-tech.html\">here<\/a>), which was completed earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Since then they&#8217;ve also allocated a further \u00a325m to six other trials across the UK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/03\/government-unveil-six-uk-winners-25m-5g-mobile-trials.html\">here<\/a>) and recently began a \u00a335m project to deploy the service on the Trans Pennine rail route between Manchester and York in England (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/08\/government-seeks-suppliers-for-5g-trial-on-trans-pennine-route.html\">here<\/a>). The funding for the latter actually comes from a different source as it&#8217;s a joint effort between the <strong>Local Full Fibre Networks<\/strong> (LFFN) programme, 5GTT and <strong>Network Rail<\/strong> (NR).<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere they&#8217;ve allocated \u00a35m to consider business models for using 5G connectivity on the UK&#8217;s roads (currently still in the design phase), \u00a310m to help test or prove the security of future 5G networks and last week splurged another \u00a325m to support the country&#8217;s first &#8220;<em>large-scale<\/em>&#8221; multi-city 5G deployment in the West Midlands via the <strong>Urban Connected Communities<\/strong> project (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/09\/first-uk-multi-city-5g-mobile-test-bed-to-begin-in-the-west-midlands.html\">here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Future 5G Testbeds and Trials<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/739430\/5GTT_Programme_Update.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new update<\/a> reveals that the Government will shortly begin piecing together their plans for a 5G centric <strong>Rural Connected Communities<\/strong> (RCC) project, which they state will &#8220;<em>promote demand for services from consumers, enterprises and the public sector in rural areas and will also explore how \u201dneutral host\u201d infrastructure sharing and spectrum sharing can be used to improve the incentives to invest<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A further \u00a325m has separately been allocated to a future round of 5G trials, which will have a &#8220;<em>primary focus on specific vertical industry sectors<\/em>.&#8221; Further details below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>5G Sector Testbed and Trials Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These projects will be explored in the Autumn of 2018, with activities expected to commence in 2019. We expect industry organisations to partner with the telecoms industry, the public sector, and academic and research organisations to build the facilities for the trialing of applications, services and products that will develop the 5G ecosystem in those chosen sectors.<\/p>\n<p>We envisage that these projects will focus on the manufacturing and logistics sectors, though we will also consider proposals from other sectors. Trials involving other sectors, such as health and social care, could also form part of the Urban and Rural Connected Communities projects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 5GTT programme is also said to be &#8220;<em>considering options<\/em>&#8221; for additional future interventions that may comprise a &#8220;<em>series of smaller scale funding opportunities to cover a broader range of activities<\/em>,&#8221; although we don&#8217;t expect to hear more about this until early 2019. Meanwhile we should find out more details about the next batch of 5G trials sometime later this autumn 2018.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome all of this extra work to help build new applications and networks for 5G, although we can\u2019t help but think that a lot of the services being tested could just as easily have been delivered via existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> or Fixed Wireless Broadband technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Government has this week posted a brief update on their \u00a3200m national 5G Testbeds and Trials (5GTT) programme, which summarises all of their existing projects to test the future ultrafast wireless broadband technology and also hints at their plans for the next 12 months.<\/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":[406,52,56,60,38],"class_list":["post-16972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-5g","tag-fibre-optic","tag-fttp","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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