Nationwide 5G to cover all 24 square miles of San Marino
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For the mobile network:
- the coverage of 4G is ... scarce
> In Italy, almost all of the population can benefit from mobile Internet connectivity services over the 2G network, namely Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and EDGE (Enhanced Data rates For GSM Evolution). Next to the full coverage is HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) technology, while the implementation of HSPA + (HSPA Evolution) and 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) solutions is still to be completed. [https://www.sostariffe.it/news/copertura-rete-mobile-in-ital...]
- the practice of trying to force users into accepting bundles that include online streaming of music and/or movies, subscriptions to the fixed network, newspapers, movie tickets, various amenities is hated by many. [https://www.tim.it]
- not having a internet-dedicated monthly fee is a lack, especially given the exaggerated costs in exchange for a low data threshold
For the fixed network:
- having a guaranteed minimum bandwidth is a utopia and the real upload bandwidth is around 20% of the declared
- the depeering has been dictated by anti-competitive strategies rather than technical reasons [http://blog.bofh.it/id_432]
Source? That's a rather bold claim. Are you talking about guaranteed bandwidth, or rather connection speed? What's usually really bad here is the "last mile".
In my (little) experience the upload bandwidth (connecting at 15M/768k) has always been respected (Source: running an e-commerce business for 12 years). Of course YMMV.
> The transmission speed is up to 7 Mbps in download and up to 384 Kbps in upload. Pursuant to Article 7, paragraph 4 of AGCom 244/08 / CSP Resolution, the value of the minimum download speed for download of the service is 6.4 Mbps. This value derives from measurements made in the second half of 2012 on lines (1) which are between 1000 and 1500 meters from the central station. It should be noted that this value refers to the exclusive use of the ADSL connection for Internet access without the simultaneous use of VoIP or IPTV services. In any case, the value of the minimum transmission speed in download that represents the target value on which Telecom Italia contractually contracts is set at 2.1 Mbps. For the lines located in the areas included in the Anti-digital divide project (see www.telecomitalia.it in the Info Consumers section - Anti-digital project divides the list of municipalities with a rated transmission speed of 640 Kbps download and 256 Kbps in upload ) Contract engagement is set at 300 Kbps in download and 100 kbps in upload. For details, see the contractual terms. [https://www.tim.it/offerte/fisso/internet-voce-e-timvision/a...]
"Are you talking about guaranteed bandwidth, or rather connection speed?" The upload bandwidth I normally have is the guaranteed minimum. Whether it's because of the last mile or the network congestion, I do not know.
Now, we are in the cloud era, suppose you try to upload an hd picture, or a long document somewhere (side note: this is an average use case, not something you should expect from a power user). For a file size of 10MiB [83886.08 Kb] (again, nothing exaggerated) at a transfer rate of 100kbps the transfer will take 838s: just slightly under a quarter of an hour !!! IMHO this is totally unreasonable.
My position is that the company is what remains of a former state monopoly, which still holds a dominant position in the telecommunications market. Unfortunately for the users, this is why there has been no incentive to improve the network over time (for everyone, doing some localised research project is insufficient), and today the situation is not the best.
Telecom Italia is not a company like the others: it's allowed to do many things that others cannot do, including harassing people at every hour of the day for selling their new snake oil with a crazy new discount (taking the money spent on the salaries of the people workin in the call centers and investing them in improving the network is the first thing to do).
The 20% is what I'm experiencing in one of my connections, but you do not have to take my word for it, a quick web search is going to show you relevant results:
http://forum.telefonino.net/showthread.php?t=402839 https://www.tomshw.it/forum/threads/telecom-upload-basso.247... http://www.evilripper.net/adsl-telecom-italia-1-megabyte-in-... https://www.tomshw.it/forum/threads/banda-in-upload.69639/ http://forum.telefonino.net/archive/index.php?t-402839.html ... and many others ...
In addition, it is implied that 5G will require usage of 28, 37, and 39 GHz, which LTE Advanced Pro does not currently have profiles for.
What San Marino is doing is building a current gen 4G network (ie, 4.9G or whatever they're calling it), allowing as many feature of LTE Advanced as possible (including complex MIMO), so in a few years most cell phones will have caught up to make effective use of it.
Also, as a side note, LTE Advanced Pro was introduced in 3GPP release 13 (early 2016), and anything that meets the requirements for 5G will not be until release 15 (most likely next year).
ISTR it suffered from somewhat high latency though.
https://hackernoon.com/will-spacex-become-the-worlds-biggest...
With nearby Tesla cars and SolarCity roofs giving your phone 5g with 25ms latency. It could happen. Soon you will be able to buy a VPS in space to halve that.
One day this space based network is going to come online and it will supercede many terrestrial upgrades, making things like the TelCo 5G roll out not needed after all.
Maybe if you migrate it every 5 minutes. Otherwise it's spending half its life on the other side of the planet.
The point here is that going to geostationary is at least a quarter second round-trip, and blows the 25ms estimate out of the water. You can put servers in orbit if you really want to, but you can't have a satellite that's both fast to access and also in range for more than a few minutes at a time.