Europe's vision of 5G technologies and infrastructure is much clearer now with the presentation of the EU Commissioner, along with companies Alcatel-Lucent, NTT DoCoMo, Ericsson, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, Thales Alenia Space, and other partners in the 5G Public-Private Partnership. It is expected that, by 2020, 5G will manage the massive growth of communication and wireless technologies used by humans and machines.

In his opening remarks, Günther H. Oettinger, in several EU-funded projects such as METIS, 5GNOW, iJOIN, MIWEBA, CREW, EVARILOS also being showcased at Barcelona in the EU 5G Research Stand. 5GNOW has already achieved important results on new radio access technology, andEuropean Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, praised the technological progress METIS has delivered the main usage scenarios, associated technologies and architectures.

Industry partners in Europe, such as Nokia and Ericsson, have also demonstrated the possibility to use higher frequency bands to reach user data rates above 1.2Gbit/s.

These are some of the results of the original $54.2 million EU Commission investment under the FP7 programme that kick-started 5G research. This month the EU will announce a new wave of projects worth $135 million, part of the total $759 million that the Commission is committed to spend until 2020. Commissioner Oettinger also thanked the industry partners for their commitment to spend an additional $2.6 billion to bring 5G to reality.

"Europe has the industrial base, the know-how and excellent research teams to deliver the future 5G digital infrastructure," Oettinger said. "I am determined to favour one single global standard for 5G. This will enhance economies of scale and scope, and deliver the digital society and economy of tomorrow."

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