With a longer delay than expected, the telecommunications network 5G advances in its benefits. The operator Orange announced on Monday the launch of the network Advanced 5G from Stand Alone (on) that allows the development of new services and applications waiting for a future 6G. The company thus becomes the first operator in Spain and one of the first in Europe to commercially launch, under the name 5G+, the mobile service 5G SA (Stand Alone). Until now, 5G SA service has only been provided in restricted areas, such as industrial estates. Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville They will be the first cities to have 5G+ coverage, which will make it possible to fully exploit all the capabilities of 5G. In these cities the coverage of the new service will be greater than 90%, according to Orange and, throughout the year 2023, other towns will be added.
For the customer, the use of the 5G+ service does not imply any price increase and to enjoy it you only need to have a compatible terminal. It uses the same frequency range as conventional 5G and mobile phones from the main manufacturers already support this technology. Orange initially launches 5G+ with the Samsung S22, Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12T, S22 +, S22 Ultra and Xioami 12 Pro series models, with other models to follow in the coming months. The download speed goes from 2 gigs per second on a standard 5G network to a limit of 20 gigs per second on the SA network.
He 5G SAwhich has already been implemented in some industrial areas in Spain and in other countries, is the most revolutionary stage in the development of 5G, as it enables the implementation of future services such as autonomous drivingby allowing very low latencies around 1 ms (response time). As for ‘smartphones’, the most appreciable improvements are related to the increase in upload speed, higher download speed and the absence of delays, and even less use of the battery. Technically, with 5G SA the network can be segmented into subnets with different transmission capacities, speed and latency, depending on the specific needs of each coverage area. For example, industrial IoT applications, interactive games, enterprise networks, or higher priority critical communications. It can be especially useful in a hospital (use of surgical robots), in road areas with automated or self-driving vehicles.
With the deployment of its 5G+ network, Orange becomes the first operator in Spain, the first of the Orange Group and one of the first in Europe to commercially launch 5G SA technology, allowing:
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He the 5G SA system of Orange It will allow a greater number of connected devices, up to one million connections per square kilometer, which represents 100 times more than the capacity of existing technologies. It also incorporates more sophisticated encryption systems. The network infrastructure allows the creation of virtual networks capable of better managing the flow of data between the connected terminals, better adjusting the network needs of each user. For this launch Orange counts on Ericsson, Nokia and Oracle Communications as providers of its 5G Stand Alone (SA) network.
It is estimated that by 2030, 5G technology will be able to reduce up to 20 times the energy needed to transmit 1 Gigabyte of information. Orange has invested a total of 531 million euros in the acquisition of 5G frequencies in all bands throughout the different auctions in which it has participated, from 2016 to the most recent one in December 2022. In fact, Orange is the operator with the largest spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band, the priority to offer higher speeds that, in addition, after the reordering of frequencies last summer of 2022, improves the speed of its 5G clients by 60%, offering peak speeds of 1. 5Gbps.