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COMMS NEWS
THREE LOOKS TO “EXPLOIT”
ENTERPRISE
THREE JOINED THE 5G era last week, switching on its Home Broadband
proposition for households in London.
The operator joined EE and Vodafone in offering a 5G product, albeit
not for mobile, who both launched 5G for compatible mobile devices.
Speaking to Comms Business at the Three 5G launch, Phil Sheppard
(pictured), Director of Strategy and Architecture at Three said that the
peak speeds that he had seen from Three clocked in at 1.2Gbps.
“The theoretical maximum speed for 5G is 1.5GBps, we haven’t quite
got to 1.5 yet we have seen 1.2 as a maximum speed, a bit of tweaking
and tuning will get us there.
But the key thing isn’t the peak speed because that is a bit
theoretical, that’s single user, ideal conditions, it’s a technology
maximum. We think the speeds will be at least 10 times faster than our
4G speeds at the moment which are around 25Mbps so we think the 5G
average speeds will be around 250Mbps.”
Three are yet to share a date for when 5G will be available on mobile
but Sheppard guaranteed that 5G mobile plans would be open for
businesses to use; adding that the newly formed enterprise division is
working on Three’s 5G business strategy.
“I think generally speaking we are looking to exploit what we have
got and sell it into other areas.
Traditionally we have not been strong in business but we have hired
a new enterprise director which we haven’t had in the past and that
person has been tasked with how do we grow that sort of business.
Our business has mainly been retail and consumer focussed. The
way that we are going to grow is through the main consumer business,
the multi-brand strategy, such as SMARTY and ID mobile, and then
there is this enterprise piece which is new and starting to develop.
To my mind there is a lot of opportunity in 5G for enterprise. We’re
not fully formed on what our strategy will be at the moment and what
we are going to do. But from my point of view I think the network
technology needs to be flexible to support business and we have a
fully flexible IT infrastructure, fully flexible core network so we can
adapt our network quickly to enterprises' requirements.”
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