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White House Pledges $400M To Back Speedier 5G Wireless Networks (fortune.com)
The Obama Administration has announced a new funding initiative to ensure the United States maintains its leadership in the mobile technology space. For this, it will spend over $400 million on large-scale test platforms led by National Science Foundation with an aim to develop and advance wireless technology to 5G and beyond. Fortune reports: To be sure, the private sector has also been getting smarter and better organized for 5G this year and the new Obama effort will be conducted in conjunction with a bevy of technology and telecommunications partners. All four major wireless carriers, AT&T, Verizon Communications, Sprint, and T-Mobile, are participating. Tech companies on board include Intel, Juniper Networks, Qualcomm, and Nokia. Notably, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are missing from the list. "These super-fast, ultra-low latency, high-capacity networks will enable breakthrough applications for consumers, smart cities, and the Internet of Things that cannot even be imagined today," the White House said in a statement. The report adds: The transition to the next generation standard for wireless networks, so-called 5G, has so far been fraught with confusion, complications, and even some contradictions. But in a few years, when 5G gear sending data at up to 100 times the speed of current networks is commonplace, people may remember July 2016 as a major turning point. The private sector has offered mixed messages about when 5G will be available for regular people and just what it will be used for. Without many standards yet agreed upon, some predicted 5G would be ready starting next year, but others said not until 2020 or later. Some wanted to use it to speed up smartphone connections, while others said it was better suited to improve home and business Internet connections or to collect data from smart devices in the "Internet of Things."
The speeds will increase, but the old dinosaurs won't let go of their silly data caps.
-SR
Translation: We don't know, what we don't know.
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Who is actually asking for this? As it stands, current cellular networks are capable of doing everyone a person could reasonably need, short of downloading 4k uncompressed bukake porn.
Oh wait, that's right. Networks want to make it as easy as possible for you to blow through your absurdly and arbitrarily tiny data quotas. They need to get their lobbyist money somehow, so they can convince the gov't that even those caps are too large.
to the Crony Capitalist in Chief!
But fear not, Hillary will be completely different, having no connections to big banks or corporations AT ALL!
Like in First World Nations, where it's $20 a month with no data cap and 20 Gbps Internet, not US $300 with a cap and 20 Mbps Internet.
You know, like in a real country.
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I partieds so hard when I heard this, that i made a mess
Still waiting for these mythical unicorns they keep touting. But then they've barely implemented what was envisioned 40 years ago: jet packs, flying cars, cities on the moon....Angry Birds via 5G pales in comparison...
I need a bigger data cap.
Try it! Library of Babel
'nuff said
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For no particular reason, they were sunk by a Confederate submarine. No story here. I'm just in that kind of mood.
Yet another subsidy to the telecoms to not deliver what they promise, and then go completely ignored by the government.
Sincerely,
my bi-directional 45Mbit access from the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that should have been available 10 years ago according to the Act, and the hundreds of billions of dollars paid in the form of excise taxes by the public.
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Sure, Allow all phones to work on all 5G bands and not artifically lock them down.... (not saying just unlocked phones for voice)...e.g.. tmobile iphone does not work on att LTE bands...
I bet there are no strings that come with that money, like no data caps. Just taxpayers funding private corporations' capital improvement projects.
The government is giving away money to its fat cat friends that will enjoy a nice cabinet position when the next president opens her little laundromat.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
The Obama Administration has announced a new funding initiative to ensure the United States maintains its leadership in the mobile technology space.
Any other government in their position would be focusing first on getting leadership but they're not going to waste time on that, it's straight to maintaining it. We'll have the best maintained lack of leadership in the world.
Why don't they collect on the broadband promises that never materialized from the last round of subsidies before giving away another half billion dollars? Oh, right, never mind. They're just bribing people with our own money and trying to make it sound like a good thing, knowing that most people won't be able to call them on it.
Maybe this time it'll be different? I wish I could believe that.
Cool! More Tax Subsidies For Multibillion dollar Corporations!
Call your congressperson and senator and have them immediately veto this unconstitutional corporate socialism bill
It's not just consumers that need lots of mobile bandwidth options. Industry and government needs it too.
Now if we could just fire every government website maker ever.. and hang them by their fingers.. for their crimes against humanity. Then we'd be really making progress.
White house pledges 400m to cell carriers profit margins
> because data collection from "Internet of Things!!!!"
The only reason we need 5g speeds to collect data from myriad home devices is because each one is feeding audio/video back to the NSA.
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Oh. 1998 all over again except for Apple, Google and Microsoft!
Holdren and Obama will be OUT-OF-OFFICE on 20 January 20017 so funding (executive order) terminates then as well.
Ha ha
Could better be spent on homeless vets. But no... lets fill the pockets of more 1%ers that are already fat instead of housing and feeding vets.
This is *not* a politically-motivated post, as it should not be, but really? 5G? Who said that (supposedly "my") government could spend $400M of *my* money (from taxes) to give the poor, starving cell carriers another, faster product to gouge consumers with? There are any number of better ways to spend $400M in the USA today. Its pretty disgusting.
this time around, those funds will come with some concrete conditions before they get paid out.
I will provide you with X amount of funding IFF you can show you have added Y amount of coverage over Z amount of time. Fail to meet those
obligations will require you to pay back any funding you receive.
While we're at it, perhaps we could add some riders on there as well.
BEFORE we give you any additional funding, you need to demonstrate why we should give a Telecom who makes Billions of dollars every quarter any taxpayer money at all. ( Considering what you did with the previous funds we provided for you )
In addition, we should talk about those silly data caps, high prices, throttling and your reluctance to embrace Network Neutrality before writing you that check.
You can already easily exceed your average data-cap with 3g.. why will more speed be so much better?
How about you get my parents something better than 1.5MB DSL first. More than 2 miles from Walmart and you are in the 3rd world :(
Is President Dubya writing the headlines now?
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
And now they will get goodies from Uncle Sam.
The White House does not earn revenue other than those paid in taxes. You can't headline saying "taxpayers support $400 million speedier surveillance network" because oh shit, the truth just hurts.
Quit lying cunts. This site is about the comments. Just post a blank summary and say, what is on your minds folks. It would be better than some more social engineering.
Why is R. Gov flushing 400 Mil away to the cellular common carriers that are making money hand over fist, providing shit customer service, exist as a protected duopoly, shall I go on and on. "Verizon and AT&T are participating...." what about emerging 5g companies with new ideas or whatever....is there something broken with how Golden Fleece is handed out to the Companies that need it the LEAST. The points made about Data Caps are well taken, the law makers should not had over a cent to any company imposing data caps.