Cellular wireless evolution Generation Frequency band PHY features Data rate Spectral Eff. (bps/Hz) 1G 850 MHz FDMA, FM N/A N/A 2G 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz TDMA/CDMA, GMSK/QPSK, FEC, PC 10 Kbps < 1 3G 1.8–2.5 GHz CDMA, QAM 1–40 Mbps 1–8 4G 2–8 GHz OFDMA, SC-FDMA, QAM, MIMO-OFDM 100–600 Mbps 15 5G 1–6 GHz mm wave (26–28 GHz) < 1 GHz (massive IoT) visible light? massive MIMO, beamforming D2D, Full duplex, NOMA LDPC and Polar codes OFDM & variants (adapted to extremes?) multi-Gbps several tens Waveform design is the major change between the generations Mobile Wireless Generations Specifications 1G Voice, Analog traffic, FDMA 2G Voice, SMS, CS data ...