Although most operators and equipment vendors will launch 5G handsets next year, some aggressive regional companies are planning to release some 5G-compliant handsets later this year, providing twice or four times the speed of 4G handsets.
'Some companies plan to commercialize by the end of 2018.' Marradi said, 'We will spare no effort to help them.'
Operators are gradually improving the 5G network construction. Malady pointed out that the current download speed is between 1Gbps and 4.5Gbps, and the initial speed is expected to be 2Gbps or 4Gbps, which is 2 or 4 times that of existing 4G/LTE networks.