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| Wireless network technologies |
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This is a list of generations of wireless network technologies in mobile telecommunications.
| Generation | Standard(s) | Theoretical maximum download speed* |
Typical download speed* |
Theoretical maximum upload speed* |
Typical upload speed* |
Frequency band |
Channel spacing |
Maximum range (distance from antenna) | Year of commercial implementation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0G | SN, SN+ | 2B/s | 50-150MHz | 1946 | |||||
| 0.5G | SI | 200-350MHz | 1958 | ||||||
| analog & digital ↓ | |||||||||
| 1G | NMT, AMPS, TACS… | 400-450MHz | 1979 | ||||||
| 1.5G | D-AMPS | 30kHz | |||||||
| digital ↓ | |||||||||
| 2G | GSM | 800-1900MHz | 1991 | ||||||
| CDMAone | 800-1900MHz | ||||||||
| 2G | PDC | ||||||||
| 2.5G | GPRS | 48kB/s | 2000 | ||||||
| 2.9G | EDGE/EGPRS | 2003 | |||||||
| 3G | UMTS | 7.2Mbit/s | 2Mbit/s | 400MHz-3GHz | 2001 | ||||
| CDMA2000 | 400MHz-3GHz | ||||||||
| 3.5G | HSPA | ||||||||
| 3.75G | HSPA+ ** | 42Mbit/s | 11Mbit/s | ||||||
| 3.95G | LTE ** | 2009 | |||||||
| (Mobile) WiMAX ** | |||||||||
| 4G | LTE ** | 150Mbit/s[1] | 20Mbit/s[1] | 50Mbit/s[1] | 5Mbit/s[1] | 5-20(40)MHz | |||
| (Mobile) WiMAX ** | |||||||||
| HSPA+ ** | |||||||||
| 4.5G | LTE+/LTE Advanced | 2007 | |||||||
| WiMAX 2 | 2007 | ||||||||
| 4.9G | LTE Advanced Pro | ||||||||
| 5G | NR | 10Gbit/s[2] | 70-205Mbit/s[1] | 1Gbit/s[1] | 11.49Mbit/s[1] | 24-100 GHz[2] | 2018 | ||
* latest and optimal iteration of technology
** originally not considered 4G, only after a revision of 4G specification