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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."
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.
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.
Oh, it's already been happening. AT&T has been lobbying (successfully in many states like Florida and Michigan) to shutdown their central offices and force users to wireless. They've been divesting in their infrastructure in order to make it so people have no excuse but to switch to the more lucrative wireless service....
The first COs are scheduled to be shutdown in 2017. You can expect wired connections in large portions of the USA to go dark in 2020.
"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
At some point upgraded to U-Verse FTN in Cupertino, CA. Then considered reverting to competitors classic DSL after most of our indoor phone jacks stopped working only to find AT&T no longer offered twisted pair back to the CO - gotcha! At least they rolled out direct fiber (GigaPower) a few months later (1 Gbps!), which is faster than my 10+ year old cat 5 wiring room to room can handle :-/
Goodbye POTS, but now more than ever ISP's need to have lower service levels (up to 10mps?) abide by common carrier rules legacy POTS used to extend to citizens of the US.
Somehow I see 5G+ as becoming compelling alternative to 1 Gbps fiber to residential homes/buildings ... if you can get reliable 1+ Gbps without fiber to home wirelessly, sure saves a lot of install hassle both outside and inside the home. Still there is something comforting about having wire/fiber terminating on one's property, and being able to decide if wire of wireless distributes Internet elsewhere to across property ... even if at increased personal expense.
Ah, that was a Serial Experiment Lain reference, sorry.
w0000! 8D
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." ;-)
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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.
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.
4G LTE is the real 4G so 5G will be closer to 4.5G
In the end it doesn't matter as long as all the companies switch to LTE or other common protocol. End the cdma, vs GSM divide.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Even at work verizons 4glte service is faster than the buisness class dsl line so not sure how a pico-cell would help that.
Last I checked verizon was still playing the lock in game with their feature phones. No free apps few paid apps and friggen everything is a monthly charge the cheapest app for weather on my samsung convoy 3 is weatherbug for $2.49/mo no option to buy the app. The same app is $2.99/yr on ipad for ad free or free with ads.
But that's probably going to be a moot point as we are not that far off from their 2020 deadline for shutting off their 2g/3g service and they have yet to release any feature phones with 4g chips.
I suppose they've decided to just stop selling phones.
I am not going to pay an extra $10/mo devicethatdoesnotworkasaphone fee.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
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.