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As of today, UBC is the first campus in Canada to be fully outfitted with 5G wireless technology.

“The purpose of the installation on our campus is to look into how 5G will be used in the future,” said Dr. Gail Murphy, UBC’s vice-president, research and innovation. “We are not at this moment focusing on how people on campus can use it at their will, we are looking at projects that make use of the technology and try and understand some of its boundaries.”

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Murphy said 5G “is going to allow us to do more computing, to move information through the network at faster speeds. That always gives you a change in the kinds of uses you can support.

“Autonomous cars are one of the uses that are enabled by 5G technology, also smart traffic lights. You can even think about devices in garbage cans and only picking up those garbage cans when they are full. It will be very interesting to see how this technological advancement will change how we interact with the world.”