Mobile Wireless Communications Connectivity Between 2020 – 2027

Many clients ask about the mobile wireless communication outlook in various contexts.? The questions are typically around 5G and its user experiences.? The following graph summarizes what we are about to experiences for mobile connectivity for the next several years.

The user equipment, UE, the mobile device will have capability to sense and connect to the optimum mode of operations depending on its location and availability of network.? The handoff will occur on the fly, with the only exception of LEO SATCOM Connectivity.

In brief, for very short distances, BT/802.15 will be used for data transfer as it is today, with some tailored improvement for datarate and power consumption. This is basically device to device, d2d, connectivity.

For local area, such as home or office, 802.11xx and/or femtocell will be the dominant mode of operations.? Depending which transceiver you have, the datarate will be about ~7Gbps.? If you don’t have any WiFi, equivalently, femtocell can be utilized instead and datarate will be about ~5Gbps.

Once you step outside of your home and office yet still in urban area, the UE will be connected to gNB or eNB depending on the availability of network, with associated datarate between 1 – 10 Gbps.

In remote areas, User Terminal, UT, the LEO SATCOM will be available to keep connectivity with 100Mbps datarate.? It is possible that the UT would be dual purpose and acts as UE as well.