5G NETWORK
5G: Can cinemas wish fibre a fond farewell? The rollout of 5G could radically impact content distribution, explains Patrick von Sychowski — just look at Norway…
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CTOBER LAST YEAR and UK telecom provider EE decided to show off the speed of its rural 4G network with a headline-grabbing stunt involving a flying cinema (check out ee.co.uk/ cinema). This so-called 4GEE cinema
was suspended 100ft in the air above a former RAF base in England’s South Downs, with 20 students from the Goodwood Flying School shown a film streamed via 4G onto the big screen and even popcorn delivered by drones. Apart from certain design flaws — there was no toilet for the strapped-in viewers, for instance — this publicity stunt was somewhat overtaken by technical reality when Norway launched the world’s first 5G cinema this year, and in a regular multiplex no less.
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