The BBC encountered a problem during the first live broadcast with 5G network because the SIM card ran out of data

On May 30, the EE operator launched the first 5G network in several major cities such as London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast, Birmingham, and Manchester of England. The Verge's London test results show that, depending on EE's 5G network speeds, it is about 200Mbps to 980Mbps, about 10 times faster than 4G speeds.

Online video is one of the areas that benefit the most when Internet speed increases. Not only can videos with higher quality be viewed while buffering time is reduced, but it is also possible to share live video in real time (livestream) with low latency.

The BBC news agency immediately tested the application of 5G network in a live recording session. Through the 5 th network, GBBC transferred the image and sound signals from the reporter standing to the TV station, but unfortunately there was an incident.

The BBC encountered a problem during the first live broadcast with 5G network because the SIM card ran out of data Picture 1
Video recording and live broadcast by BBC with 5G network.

The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones said that because of the extremely rare reason that the SIM card used by BBC to use is out of capacity, the live broadcast has to take less than 15 minutes. .

The incident that BBC encountered caused many people to ask questions, when users will be able to reach the limit of capacity in a short time, what does the "terrible" speed of 5G mean?

In order to get 20GB, users will have to pay 32 pounds (nearly 1 million), with 100GB capacity to pay will increase to 52 pounds (1.5 million). Only after a short time using resources-consuming applications like Youtube, that amount will quickly dissipate. Where the above EE network is the clearest example and this is definitely a problem that operators need to address to make 5G technology more popular.