frequency blocks up for grabs the first round garnered nearly three hundred million euros the german federal network agency expects the final sum of several billion euros five g. offers data transmission speeds one hundred times faster than current l.t.e. networks this will be key for technologies like driverless cars and the control of complex industrial machines that intersect an enormous put in six enormous potential here in germany as an industrial nation wants to be part of the gigabyte society and at the forefront of industry four point zero we need these frequencies on the market quickly for industry to develop business models. quickly is the operative word china and south korea have already arrived in the five g. age this five g. bus service has started operation in the chinese city of not needing offering passengers ultra fast internet and tell medicine over thousands of kilometers is already being practiced in china with five g. . the frequency is used in five g. have a shorter range and don't travel well through buildings so they require more dense arrays of transmission masts that costs money m