I know it depends on several factors (bandwidth, hardware…). Is there also a vendor dependency on this value?
So, what would be the maximum number of concurrent (simultaneous) users - practical and theoretical value - that we can have, considering the main possible scenarios/factors?
Probably there will be some “it depends”… in this case, can we have a table, with the average and/or maximum number of 5G users per cell, for different scenarios?
Really good question. I don’t know the answer, but indeed it’s a good table to have, please share if you find.
I read and article long time ago, saying:
“5G is expected to support up to 1 million connected devices per .38 square miles, compared to around 2,000 connected devices per .38 square miles with 4G.” (This is the link for the article, but it is very old - 2017).
It is true to have millions of connected users in case benefitting from all functionalities of 5G (URLLC, EMBB, M2M).
You can find thousands of cars in a crowded street and hundreds of thousands of IoT devices or sensors in the same street…let’s here, as 5G global view, you can serve thousands or much more per cell (via different slices).
Coming back to the usage of 5G for BB domain only (similar to 4G or 3G), i think it is limited to SW level per vendor, BW, license capacity as well HW and configuration of the 5G cell (some alarms may affect negatively the 5G cell performances and hence the number of connected users…)
