Mobile broadband: 3G, 4G LTE and 5G
Banda ancha móvil: 3G, 4G LTE y 5G
- Date
- 2001-2019 · confidence high
- Place
- NTT DoCoMo, Tokyo (3G, 2001); TeliaSonera, Stockholm and Oslo (4G, 2009); South Korea (5G, 2019)
- Credited to
- 3GPP (standards consortium); NTT DoCoMo (FOMA); Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, Qualcomm
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Generations of mobile networks that brought high-speed internet to the telephone: 3G made the smartphone possible, 4G made video and platform apps possible, 5G made low latency possible. They are the invisible infrastructure of digital life.
What it led to
- The mobile platform economy (Uber, TikTok) and streaming on the move
- The US-China technology war over Huawei and 5G
- The industrial internet of things and connected vehicles