Asia Express - Mobile Communications
NTT DOCOMO to Trial 5G Technology with Major Vendors
May 12, 2014

NTT DOCOMO will launch trials of 5G communications technologies in collaboration with worldwide major vendors, such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia and Samsung, reported Asahi Shimbun on May 9. Indoor trials will be conducted at the DOCOMO R&D Center in Kanagawa this year, followed by field trials in 2015. The experiments will test the potential of 5G mobile technologies to utilize frequency bands above 6 GHz and realize very high system capacity per unit area, and new radio technologies to support applications like M2M (Machine-to-Machine) services. The 5G technology is set for commercialization in 2020.