In the race for ultra-broadband connections and just as he is working with CDP on the project for a single fiber network, Tim announces that he has reached a new milestone. The group has achieved, says a statement, “first in Europe, the connection able to consistently exceed the speed of 4 Gigabits per second in downlink on live 5G network with millimeter frequencies (mmWave) at 26 GigaHertz (GHz), acquired in the MiSE 5G auction".
The new progress, still specifies the note of the telephone group, was achieved in collaboration with Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, and exceeds the record of 2 Gigabits per second achieved last January. Previously, Tim had made the first 2017G connection in Italy in 5 in Turin and in 2018 in Rome the first 5G video call in Europe. From a technical point of view, the speed record was achieved with a Qualcomm® device using the Snapdragon™ X55 modem-RF platform with QTM525 mmWave Antenna module and solutions from the Ericsson Radio System portfolio.
The result, the company points out, “confirms TIM's capacity for innovation thanks to its state-of-the-art network infrastructure, capable of enabling the country's digital transformation. Millimetric frequencies, in addition to reaching very high speeds, provide large network capacities thanks to the wide availability of bandwidth. These features allow the development of 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services with Gigabit speeds, particularly in areas not yet reached by fixed ultra-broadband, as well as the creation of 'dedicated' 5G indoor coverage, which can be used for vertical applications that enable new scenarios in the 'Industry 4.0, based on very high speed services, very low latency and the highest level of security and reliability of use”.
