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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.
Buzzword.
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Since there are not even any actual 4G deployments in the United States yet, it will be a while before 5G even matters, if it ever does.
Yay Capitalism! Yesteryear's technology at outrageous prices.
The US will adopt a closed standard, with royalties, that will work only in the US. That'll keep the eurotrash out.
Yup, and you will keep on paying 10x more than anywhere else in the world.
The US is becoming more and more irrelevant each step along the way.
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You joke, but what really happens is the US carriers have decided "we'll call it whatever we like for marketing purposes". Which means someone comes along, defines a standard, and then US carriers co-opt the name and say "yup, we have that", when in reality they don't have that.
This has nothing to do with metric, and everything to do with US corporations saying "Yeah, we totally have 4G", except it's not really 4G, it's some marketing term which has nothing to do with 4G.
So, you know, stop letting your companies take the name of a specific bit of technology and say they're using it when they aren't. Then you won't have the problem of the US glaringly not running the technology they claim.
But, apparently, part of corporate free speech is mis-representing your service to your customers.
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Increased speed is pointless if they keep choking it with ridiculously low caps. "Oh, wow. I can hit my monthly cap in 19.3 seconds."
It will be decided on by the telcos. It will be something that can be achieved inexpensively and yield maximum profits. It will grant a minor speed bump for us in the USA, while giving the telcos an excuse for doubling consumer costs.
And it won't be remotely as fast as "5G" anywhere else in the world.
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In the long list of things that can and should make a country irrelevant, the cost of a phone plan is pretty much... not there.
Except the two "4G" technologies and marketing that don't meet the 4G standard didn't come from U.S. carriers, they came from European and Asian carriers, who then pressured ITU-R into accepting that marketing as 4G even though it didn't meet the standard.
So, sorry to spoil your U.S. Americorp conspiracy, but we were late to the party on that bullshit.
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Their women can come. We really only want to keep out the eurotrash dudes. If only we could buid some sort of one way selective female membrane that lets them in but not out.