Singtel, Singapore’s largest mobile operator, and Swedish equipment vendor Ericsson gave a live demonstration of the claimed potential of 5G in Singapore.

The Making 5G Innovation a Reality demo, which the firms said is a first in Southeast Asia, highlights Ericsson’s 5G radio prototypes that trumpet a peak throughput of 27.5Gb/s and latency as low as 2ms.

The companies said they also demonstrated “the world’s first end-to-end low latency live video streaming over 5G.”

This demos are a result of a 5G partnership agreement between the companies, which involved evaluating and testing technologies that are candidates for future 5G standardisation.

Singtel CTO Tay Soo Meng said 5G is important to the Singtel group as it will support advanced communication needs. “To ensure the group continues its technology leadership in the mobile communications domain, we are exploring, studying and trialling pre-5G technologies with Ericsson.”