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AT&T To Begin 5G Wireless Field Trials This Year (eweek.com)
AT&T will begin field trials of its 5G wireless technologies later this summer after conducting extensive lab development and testing with several partners in the second quarter of 2016. The company unveiled its 5G roadmap and testing plans in a Feb. 11 announcement as it continues to work on the creation of its next-generation wireless network across the nation.
When completed, 5G wireless systems are expected to deliver speeds 10 to 100 times faster than the average 4G LTE connections of today, according to AT&T. "New experiences like virtual reality, self-driving cars, robotics, smart cities and more are about to test networks like never before," John Donovan, chief strategy officer and group president of AT&T technology and operations, said in a statement. "These technologies will be immersive, pervasive and responsive to customers. 5G will help make them a reality."
When completed, 5G wireless systems are expected to deliver speeds 10 to 100 times faster than the average 4G LTE connections of today, according to AT&T. "New experiences like virtual reality, self-driving cars, robotics, smart cities and more are about to test networks like never before," John Donovan, chief strategy officer and group president of AT&T technology and operations, said in a statement. "These technologies will be immersive, pervasive and responsive to customers. 5G will help make them a reality."
That probably won't be in AT&T's ad for their 5G service
When completed, 5G wireless systems are expected to deliver speeds 10 to 100 times faster than the average 4G LTE connections of today, according to AT&T.
Now we can hit our puny bandwidth caps faster and get raped on overages, and don't forget about our exorbitant plan prices and phones with patches that arrive way too late.
I think we are talking less than a minute to use a month's data allowance.
This is about increasing availability, more phones using the same tower, not speeds.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
and when a self-driving car drives in to canada with this you can run the roaming bill up till the cost of a new car in under a hour.
This will be the shattering point between the Wired and the real world; in case you were wondering, the God of the Wired is angry.
My phone lasts for days sipping from 2G or Wifi. It goes about half a day on 4G.
What is the battery life expected for a 5G device?
Is 5G in the US the same as 5G in Europe/Asia/Wherever? Because my 2G works f-cking everywhere, it's great.
moox. for a new generation.
"5G isn't just about speed, it's how much you owe us for using it!"
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
It works in a field but not inside a building
100x as fast! Same data cap, so they'll upsell you from car payment rates to mortgage rates. This is just my first guess.
Could we try a 4G wireless field test? Just asking.
Your 2GB plan will not go very far.
It is a Sunday night, normally a relatively lively time on Slashdot, but there is not a single comment that is even getting displayed.
Who is this BeauHD buffoon?
Beau Hamilton is the Goggle consensus, https://www.instagram.com/p/7oX4wMmwZ-/?taken-by=beauhd, but he doesn't seem to have the guts to even share his account here.
I thought the L stood for 'Long'....I guess I was wrong or the marketroids were just fucking with us again.
Wait...is that before or after throttling?
"When completed, 5G wireless systems are expected to deliver speeds UP TO 10 to 100 times faster than the average 4G LTE connections of today, according to AT&T." ;-)
Keep the Classic Slashdot.
Um, are car payments really even less than mortgage payments anymore? The average decent car seems to be between 30K and 40K now, which on a typical 5 year car loan with 10% down runs between 475 and 625/mo.
A 30 year mortgage on a 150K property with 20% down is about 650.
"sending and receiving data exposes us to harmful microwave radiation."
I know I'm just falling for a troll, but no, it doesn't. Not by any stretch of the imagination. You know why? Because physics. This was obvious to anyone with a STEM degree the moment the issue was first mentioned back in the 90s.
I hate to say this being the die-hard libertarian that I am, but seriously, when it comes down to it, socialism just makes sense for some things - those things we all need.
Roads, electricity, water, sewer, communications, and other utilities are necessary for everyone to have. And, yes, other things as well such as basic housing, because we're human beings who don't leave other human beings to starve to death out in the cold. We can help ourselves and help others without giving up our rights.
If anything, it saves a lot of us a lot of money to socialize these things. And by "socialize," I mean really socialize, not "send the bill to the top 1% of income earners" as we do with our hybrid socialism today. That *is* fundamentally unfair, and defies the equal protection clause of the Constitution. Taking more of my money than someone else's is not equal protection - it is protecting them more than protecting me.
What we should have is a flat rate tax with no exemptions, no loopholes, no credits, no nothing, where EVERYONE has skin in the game, and EVERYONE who works, pays. When EVERYONE has skin in the game, and EVERYONE pays, then EVERYONE will vote for a Congress who spends money wisely, while still helping those who need it the most.
I am all for helping people who cannot yet help themselves, or have become unable to help themselves. Please, take some of my money to keep these poor souls from being completely abandoned. A basic shelter, access to basic utilities, access to a basic education, and yes maybe even access to a basic income, are those things which will help a society succeed.
The Pursuit of Happiness is a basic, fundamental, and inalienable right given us by almighty God himself. If we don't help those have access to the basic necessities of that pursuit, then we are denying them their most fundamental right.
So, to that end, like most other utilities, cellular voice and data should be hosted like any other utility, regulated by a PUC to ensure equal access to all, and to protect the rights of all people to be free and to pursue their dreams. That is liberty. Living under the thumb of a corporate oligarchy is not liberty.
They won't do this. You know why? Because eugenics. This was obvious to anyone with an ability to see a world population of 500M the moment the issue was first mentioned back in the 40s when microwave radiation was melting radar operator's cheddar.
What really gets them off is that people are paying for their own cancer. It positively warms their loins to see pregnant moms holding their smartphones to their bellies.
A few years ago, they got away with renaming 3G LTE to 4G, with the result that nobody gets anywhere near the several gigabits that 4G was supposed to be.
So, is this "5G" real 4G, or is it yet another incremental upgrade of 3G?
(I don't trust anyone in the mobile business anymore)
Between battery life and data caps, unless something changes radically on either front you'll have customers with a phone (and a plan) that burns out within the first few days of the month. Not to mention throttling.
Considering that data caps are close to nearly-useless on 3G+LTE plans that the mobile carriers already offer, and none of the mobile carries cover every square inch of the US or Canada, 5G is only going to benefit apartment dwellers in the largest cities.
When 3G was rolled out (really 2G GSM) in the US, it covered nearly nothing, and today? Still covers nothing outside a major city. If you want to rely on google maps instead of an integrated GPS in your car, forget ever leaving the city. When LTE rolled out, good luck trying to use it unless you were standing in the middle of the road in a major city. The buildings bounce signals around, and you're lucky if you can keep a LTE connection from one end of the city to the other. So what will 5G accomplish? Only being able to use it in buildings that put in their own pico-cells?
Like I'm optimistic about technology at the best of times, but the two worst pieces of tech we use today are cell phones and "VR" kits. The former being so rediciously expensive to use that it simply doesn't get used. What a racket, charging people to use a device they are afraid to use because of of the per-kilobyte usage rate ($0.05/KB, $50/MB, $50,000/GB.) Wireless companies would actually get people to pay more money if the difference between a $25 plan and a $100 plan actually offered something. But they don't. Often the only difference between such plans is the phone subsidy.
Much more useful would be availability more of the time in more locations. Higher bandwidth occasionally in some places is for entertainment (and irritating even then) and isn't very useful for those other things to which AT&T is referring. In the old days, they complained about having to provide service in non-lucrative areas, now they just don't and say they did.
I'm sick of the awful audio quality of cellphone calls.
Time to focus on better, understandable audio before squeezing more calls into the bandwidth.
I'm glad I don't waste my money on this stuff.
I have internet at home and at work. Why would I need it on my phone?
1) low latency reliable connections
2) simple data plans
Nuf said
"These technologies will be immersive, pervasive and responsive to customers. 5G will help make them a reality."
Immersive, pervasive, and responsive?!? F*** me, that sounds awesome. The future is now.