The fifth generation of wireless systems (5G) will eventually govern everything from driverless cars to powering fully automated smart cities where sensors will control things such as traffic flow, utilities, heating and lighting. China, the United States, Japan, South Korea and a handful of telecom companies are at the forefront of developing, testing and deploying the technology that will drive the worlds economy in the decades to come.

On April 16 in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong province, Huawei, one of the companies leading the development of 5G, launched SingleRAN Pro, a 5G-oriented single radio access network platform.

 

SingleRAN Pro offers 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G all on one network, an “agile architecture for diverse services, and an automatic intelligent management system”, Huawei said.

Among the key 5G telecom companies are Sweden’s Ericsson, Finland’s Nokia, Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE, South Korea’s Samsung, Japanese companies NEC, Fujitsu and Sumitomo, and American multinationals Qualcomm and Intel.