Okay, okay, we haven't fully exploited fourth-generation (4G) mobile telephony yet, and some are already testing its successor, 5G. It's a groundbreaking network that will be able to stream Full HD quality video to our mobile phones in seconds. At least that's what Steve Perlman with the network he calls pCell.
The innovation of pCell is that the available bandwidth of the mobile network is not shared among users, but essentially each user has their own personal fast connection, as if they were on their own home Wi-Fi network.
Furthermore, the new network is compatible with devices that support LTE, so there will be no need to reach into the pocket again.
We won't go into the technicalities behind pCell. We'll just mention that what Perlman and his team have done is essentially eliminate the interference between cell phone antennas that occurs if they are placed too close to each other. In the current situation, the antennas create a network that resembles a cell. pCel's technology allows antennas to be placed wherever we want and as close to each other as we want, since they are able to detect a device (a smartphone for example) that is trying to connect and produce a coded signal specifically for that device.
The first installations are already being done in the city of San Francisco, and soon New York will also be equipped with pCel antennas.
