Canada will want to look at U.S. as 5G networks come online to help congestion: Opensignal

Canada might want to watch the development of 5G networks in the U.South. over the next year as our neighbor downwardly south "volition likely exist an important bellwether of 5G's impact on networks globally," says a new Opensignal written report.

The report, titled 'The 5G Opportunity — How 5G will solve the congestion bug of today'southward 4G networks,' was published on February 20th and states that 5G volition "provide a blanket of chapters" that'due south built on a higher frequency spectrum bandwidth "that will help mitigate the daily cycle of congestion" seen in 4G networks.

But, co-ordinate to the report, Canada is second on the list of countries in the world with the fastest 4G download speeds. The report said that there is merely a twenty percentage divergence between the slowest (34.1Mbps) and fastest (43.4Mbps) average speeds over the class of the day.

"There was very little difference between Canada's virtually optimized connections and its average speed, putting it not only among the fastest countries in our analysis but besides the most consistent," the report said.

As a result, information technology noted that Canadians are seeing very petty deviation in their connection whether the network is loaded heavily or lightly at any given fourth dimension.

"That suggests that congestion isn't a very big upshot in Canada, which may exist in part explained by the relatively higher cost of data services in the country," the report said.

In comparison to the Usa, Opensignal said 4G download speeds at the to the lowest degree busy hour of the day (28.8Mbps) were 90 percentage faster than speeds at the busiest hour the twenty-four hour period (15.3Mbps). On average throughout the day 4G download speeds were at 18.1Mbps, according to Opensignal.

"4G networks in the U.South. are really quite powerful, but due to congestion consumers rarely become access to the full capabilities of their networks," Opensignal said.

According to the study, it looks like 5G might not necessarily benefit mobile technology in Canada — at least not correct away. This would make sense since, in Canada, many experts have suggested that 5G volition be utilized more for solutions similar smart cities, smart homes, autonomous vehicles and even fixed internet connections in rural areas of the state.