Swiss operator Sunrise is going live with its second 5G network and what it claims is the world's first standardised 5G network at a ski resort, at LAAX on Crap Sogn Gion mountain (2,252 metres above sea level). In the past twelve months, the operator has achieved two other 5G milestones, including a world record under laboratory conditions and the first end-to-end 5G network in Switzerland with '5G for People'.
Sunrise is providing Crap Sogn Gion and the LAAX resort with 5G antennae in the 3.5 GHz frequency range. The simplest type of 8x8 MIMO antenna now allows devices to reach bandwidths of over 300 Mbps. Once MIMO technologies with 32x32 and 64x64 antennae are used commercially, these devices will be able to reach bandwidths of over 1 Gbps, Swisscom said.
