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Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be
itwbennett writes: Following agreements signed by the EU with South Korea in June 2014 and with Japan in May 2015, the EU and China "have agreed to agree by the end of the year on a working definition for 5G," reports Peter Sayer. "About the only point of agreement so far is that 5G is what we'll all be building or buying after 4G, so any consensus between the EU and China could be significant," says Sayer.
The United States will accept the standard when the rest of the world ditches that stupid metric system and go back to real units.
The US will build their OWN 5G network. With Blackjack. And hookers.
In fact, forget compatibility.
The US will adopt a closed standard, with royalties, that will work only in the US. That'll keep the eurotrash out.
I get the feeling Slashdot is provincial, but in the sense that their province is the basement and they hate everyone outside it.
Me, I only hate Australia because they have death adders and kangaroo, who are not at all cute and cuddly. They're mean and they just want to kick your ass all the time.
Europe, US, South America, Asia. As long as I can get a decent meal, they're all OK in my book. But you can't get a decent meal in Australia, unless by "decent meal" you mean getting bitten by death adders and your ass kicked by a surly kangaroo. Even koalas you can't trust. They're cute until you get close enough for them to pull a death adder out of their marsupial sack and then it's your ass.
No sir. I do not like Australia.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Carriers: The numbers all go to 5G. Look, right across the board, 5G, 5G, 5G and...
Customers: Oh, I see. And most networks go up to 4G?
Carriers: Exactly.
Customers: Does that mean it's faster? Is it any faster?
Carriers: Well, it's one faster, isn't it? It's not 4G. You see, most blokes, you know, will be surfing at 4G. You're on 4G here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on 4G on your phone. Where can you go from there? Where?
Customers: I don't know.
Carriers: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Customers: Put it up to 5G.
Carriers: 5G. Exactly. One faster.
Customers: Why don't you just make 4G faster and make 4G be the top number and make that a little faster?
Carriers: [pause] These go to 5G.
I have a 7G mobile hanging in my window. That is seven G's! Two more than this 5G and at least THREE MORE than what most people have.
I added a small bell to balance them to eight items. I had used a pre-made mobile ring with eight holes around the circumference and was too lazy to measure and drill seven new ones for the strings. But when the window is open, and the wind catches the G's in the mobile, the bell hanging from the ring rings.
People have asked me if I could also talk into it: of course I can, but I don't see the point.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley