--- title: "Don’t Get Your Hopes Up about 5G Yet - Get a Free Network Security Consultation in South Florida" description: "Despite being promised 5G in 2020, it’s looking like it’s going to take a few more years to arrive. Find out more about 5G today." url: "https://www.l7solutions.com/blog/don-t-get-your-hopes-up-about-5g-yet" date: "2026-06-20T09:54:56+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- ## Get a Free Network Security Consultation in South Florida Get a free network security consultation today from L7 Solutions. We are your partner for managed services & IT support in South Florida and beyond. Call today. [ Categories ](https://www.l7solutions.com/blog/categories "Categories") [ Tags ](https://www.l7solutions.com/blog/tags "Tags") [ Categories: All Categories ](https://www.l7solutions.com/javascript:void(0); "Categories") Search...Suggested keywords [ x ](https://www.l7solutions.com/javascript:void(0);) # Don’t Get Your Hopes Up about 5G Yet [LSeven Solutions Blog](https://www.l7solutions.com/blog/categories/blog) [Technology](https://www.l7solutions.com/blog/categories/technology) [LSeven Solutions Admin](https://www.l7solutions.com/blog/blogger/l7-admin) Friday, 22 June 2018 [ 6 Comments ](https://www.l7solutions.com/blog/don-t-get-your-hopes-up-about-5g-yet#comments) [ ![Don’t Get Your Hopes Up about 5G Yet](//www.l7solutions.com/images/easyblog_shared/June_2018/6-22-18/b2ap3_large_dont_get_hopes_5g_400.jpg) ](//www.l7solutions.com/images/easyblog_shared/June_2018/6-22-18/dont_get_hopes_5g_400.jpg "Don’t Get Your Hopes Up about 5G Yet") There’s no getting around it: technology has spoiled us. We have had access to 4G mobile data speeds since 2009, and we’re already clamoring for the next thing. While 5G has been in development for some time now, it will likely be quite a while before it is available for common use. Here, we examine why 5G is likely going to take at least a few more years to arrive. **Technological Hang-ups and Impracticalities** The technology that is currently being proposed and developed to power 5G connectivity is rife with shortcomings and conflicts, many of which make its practical use unrealistic and complicated, if not effectively impossible. For example: **Range** One of the biggest issues is the range that the anticipated 5G signals are projected to have - more specifically, the range that Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) through millimeter wave (mmWave) is capable of reaching. This eMBB is what smartphones would utilize. A 4G signal, the current standard, has a range of anywhere from three to thirty miles. In comparison, mmWave reaches about a third of a mile. Just imagine how many new cell towers would have to be added to the existing infrastructure for 5G to be implemented. Of course, it’s also likely that looming cell towers will be replaced by then through the adoption of microwave oven-sized femtocells that can be affixed to other pieces of infrastructure, like traffic signs, light poles, and even buses. **Connectivity** Unfortunately, it would seem that there would need to be quite a few of these femtocells, just to ensure a clear signal to a device at any given time. This is because, in addition to being relatively short-ranged, mmWave is a notoriously easy signal to block. Furthermore, there is also the question of providing each femtocell with enough bandwidth to support the high volume of use. This will require expensive high-speed fiber wiring to connect them, as the femtocells won’t be able to share their data with each other efficiently enough to make up for the difference. **Cloud Complications** Cloud computing has made it easier to manage networks by far, so it is only to be expected that these femtocells will leverage the cloud as a management tool. Virtual networks can be created in the cloud to help manage 5G through the utilization of software-defined networks (SDNs) and network function virtualization (NFV). The problem here is that there are multiple SDNs and NFVs, which means there is no unified standard. While there is an effort being made by the Linux Foundation to resolve this, it will take some time before this can be ironed out. Don’t get us wrong, 5G is definitely on its way. There are too many potential benefits for femtocells to be abandoned as a solution (did we mention how cheap they are to use?) and demand for better mobile bandwidth is too high to ignore. It is just going to take some time to overcome some of the technical hurdles. In the meantime, COMPANYNAME can help you optimize your current business connectivity. Give us a call at PHONENUMBER to learn more. 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