Optus announced that it will launch 4K Ultra HD Live Streaming exclusive football content on Optus Sport from June 2020 for 5G Home customers.
This will allow customers to enjoy selected games from the Euro 2020 tournament, the 2020/21 Champions League and the 2020/21 Premier League in stunning 4K Ultra HD Live Streaming quality. Optus said it will also deliver the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in 4K Ultra HD which will be exclusively available to Optus 5G Home customers via Fetch Mighty Boxes.
Optus also announced that it has successfully made an end-to-end 5G video test call whilst simultaneously streaming video content on a 4G device with the Ericsson Spectrum Sharing technology.
Utilising the Optus 5G network in Australia and Singtel’s pilot 5G network in Singapore, the inter-country video call was made with a pre-commercial OPPO 5G device equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF System while also video streaming content on a 4G device connected to the same spectrum. The Optus network was able to assign spectrum resources on both 4G and 5G switching between them in milliseconds to support the different service video demands from both users.
Importantly this test call demonstrates the benefits of Dynamic Spectrum Sharing, which rather than dedicating spectrum to one technology which is the case today, allows the same spectrum to be used at the same time for both 4G and 5G, with the network base stations controlling the allocation of spectrum.
Kent Wu, Head of Access Network Planning & Quality, Optus
Spectrum sharing is an important next step in our strategy to focus on video experience for our customers and this will play a key role in enabling us to deliver an incredible 4K Ultra HD Live Streaming sports and 4K SVOD entertainment content experience on our Optus 5G network in 2020.
