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SmarTone arrives fashionably late to Hong Kong’s 5G party
- Wednesday | 27th May, 2020
Hong Kong mobile operator SmarTone officially launched commercial 5G services on Tuesday, making it the last of the city’s operators to launch next-gen services. HKT, 3 Hong Kong and China Mobile Hong Kong launched their respective 5G services on April 1 this year, offering varying degrees of coverage. “The challenge with refarming spectrum for both 4G and 5G is that if we use 4G spectrum to provide 5G resources to the user, it impacts other 4G users because it reduces the 4G resources available to them,” Chau explained. For now, DSS-enabled base stations are limited in the amount of resources they can allocate to 5G, Chau noted. Enterprise playSpeaking of 5G-specific apps, SmarTone is offering similar things to its competitors, like 4K videos, VR helmets and online gaming.
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