Speaking with CNBC, Ito said the standards that were agreed upon by the governing body for
telecommunications standards mean 5G will aim to reduce latency to 0.5 milliseconds, putting it way ahead of the 10 milliseconds supported by the current 4G standard.
Not exact matches
That
means the American government building a nationwide 5G network within just three years — a timespan that includes the recreation of a «
telecommunications manufacturing base in the U.S.» There would need to be new national
standards for deploying the infrastructure, in order to speed up the process.
Those numbers don't really
mean anything in themselves, they're just the
standard defined by the ITU (International
Telecommunications Union) but you'll often hear TV manufacturers saying that they conform to BT.2020, for example.