The 5GCHAMPION consortium, w
hich includes 21 universities, research institutes and companies from Europe and South Korea, developed a fully integrated intercontinental 5G network proof of concept and deployed it the PyeongChang Olympic host city, Gangneung, two years ahead of the official launch of 5G networks – see below news release and here is a link.
Olympic visitors could experience the network while riding the 5GCHAMPION bus between event venues in Gangneung’s main area. Wearing virtual-reality glasses, they could visit “almost instantaneously” and in 3D a site in Oulu, Finland, via a 5G intercontinental connection developed by the project teams. The data-transfer speed on this proposed 5G mobile network is 2.5 Gbps.
