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Nokia Networks Demonstrates 5G Mobile Speeds Running At 10Gbps Via 73GHz
Mark.JUK writes The Brooklyn 5G Summit appears to have provided a platform for Nokia Networks to demo a prototype of their future 5G (5th Generation) mobile network technology, which they claim can already deliver data speeds of 10 Gigabits per second using millimeter Wave (mmW) frequency bands of 73GHz. The demo also made use of 2×2 Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) links via single carrier Null Cyclic Prefix modulation and frame size of 100 micro seconds, although crucially no information about the distance of this demo transmission has been released and at 73GHz you'd need quite a dense network in order to overcome the problems of high frequency signal coverage and penetration.
10 gigabits per second! Sweet! I can run through my entire Verizon monthly 2 gig allottment in under 2 seconds, and run up $10 a second per gig in overage!
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Shouldn't this be named "1/25 of an inch Wave", or "OTFOAIW"?
faster cellular networks aren't all that interesting. It will take forever for them to be deployed, and
Now give me an 802.11ZZZ or something that can do just 20Mb/s or so at 10 miles NLOS with non-directional antennas, and you've got something useful.
2gb has been a standard data cap for nearly ten years.
in markets where people are shafted anyways...
and hey, even when they introduced gprs, the standard limits in markets where you weren't getting shafted were 100mbytes and 20mbytes. but that was a lot after 1999. in 1999 you would have been paying per minute on gsm to get a 9600bps connection. that's why gprs when it came was such a huge booster - it made mobile web possible.
basically what I'm trying to get to is that usa data caps have been fairly stationary despite post 3g technology hitting the market. it's really not about anything else than that people are stupid enough to pay 60-80 bucks plans for that kind of shit, so why should they adjust it?
and back in Finland 7 years or so I was torrenting 24/7 on uncapped 3g prepaid that was 10 euros a month. do you even have the option for doing that yet? no? your operators are screwing you over.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
That's not all that frequency does! Reading this, "Low Intensity Electromagnetic Irradiation with 70.6 and 73 GHz Frequencies Affects Escherichia coli Growth and Changes Water Properties". So there are probably many unknown side effects that will start showing once this is in offices all over the place.
Nothing. It's not ionizing radiation.
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