Professor Rahim Tafazolli, director of the 5GIC, told V3.co.uk that the tests were carried out over a distance of 100 meters, using transmitters and receivers built at the university, as part of the center's research on new technologies to support 5G services.
"We have developed 10 more breakthrough technologies and one of them means we can exceed 1Tbps wirelessly. This is the same capacity as fiber optics but we are doing it wirelessly," the professor explained, adding that the team hopes to be able to demonstrate the technology to the public in 2018, before rival research teams in South Korea, Russia and Japan.
The 5GIC was set up in October 2012 with £11.6 million ($18 million) of funding from the UK government, and another £24 million ($37 million) from a consortium of key mobile operators and infrastructure providers including Huawei, Samsung, Telefonica Europe, Fujitsu Laboratories Europe, Rohde & Schwarz and AIRCOM International; government and industry are aiming to make 5G a commercial reality by 2020, with the technology hoped to power a proposed “Internet of Things,” which would connect everyday objects.
