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Verizon and AT&T Prepare to Bring 5G To (Select) Markets In 2017 (ieee.org)
An anonymous reader quotes IEEE Spectrum:
This year, Verizon and AT&T plan to deliver broadband internet to select homes or businesses using fixed wireless networks built with early 5G technologies. These 5G pilot programs will give the public its first glimpse into a wireless future that isn't due to fully arrive until the early 2020s. With 5G, carriers hope to deliver data to smartphone users at speeds 10 times as fast as on today's 4G networks, and with only 1 millisecond of delay... Over the past year, companies have completed a flurry of lab tests and trials to figure out what types of radios, antennas, and signal processing techniques will work best to deliver 5G in hopes of bringing those technologies and their capabilities to market as soon as possible.
The article notes that standards groups are halfway through their eight-year process of finalizing technical specifications (set to finish in 2020), but "With so much cash on the line, and facing pressure from data-hungry customers, carriers are moving fast." In Japan, NTT Docomo has even tested dozens of programmable antennas simultaneously transmitting signals, resulting in transmissions at 20 gigabits per second. "At that speed, a complete 2-hour, 1080p, high-definition movie can be transmitted in a second and a half."
The article notes that standards groups are halfway through their eight-year process of finalizing technical specifications (set to finish in 2020), but "With so much cash on the line, and facing pressure from data-hungry customers, carriers are moving fast." In Japan, NTT Docomo has even tested dozens of programmable antennas simultaneously transmitting signals, resulting in transmissions at 20 gigabits per second. "At that speed, a complete 2-hour, 1080p, high-definition movie can be transmitted in a second and a half."
Dude! At those speeds mah cap gonna be blown in like two seconds bro.
I imagine Verizon in particular plans to deliver 5G service for 10x faster cell service so you'll hit your data cap that much more quickly. Not interested. On the other hand, if cell service could become more competitive with broadband internet and better consumer devices were available to connect your home devices up to it without additional expense, I might be interested. I don't find it valuable enough to be able to watch Netflix anywhere on any device to pay a premium price. I'll just go home and watch it on my HD TV and 7.1 surround sound system.
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Gloriously offtopic, but who cares.
Health, wealth and harmony in your personal and professional lives to all.
Even those of you not using BSD.
5G capped at 2GB use @ $60/m YES!!!
BUY BUY BUY!!!
That would be a 1080p High Definition CATRS movie (Compressed All To Rat Shit). CHRS (Compressed Half To Rat Shit) would take 8 seconds or so (assuming 1 customer per cell site). A real 1080p High Definition would take about 20 seconds assuming 1 customer per cell tower.
Of course, most consumer devices would explode if asked to sink a 20 gig data flow.
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"With 5G, carriers hope to deliver data to smartphone users at speeds 10 times as fast as on today's 4G networks, and with only 1 millisecond of delay... "
10 time 0 is still 0.
Yet another bridge tech to keep from having to run fiber to the home. Cable companies are almost to the point where passive coax makes sense everywhere (Comcast will be deploying "fiber deep" tech in their network over the next 2-4 years). VZW again attempting to dump their copper pair network, this time for wireless. No idea what AT&T is up to with Uverse these days, but I think they're continuing to push RDSLAMs out closer to the customers. Any new build developments above a certain number of homes will be fiber to the home for every ISP thanks to joint open trenching, but all that legacy stuff is too expensive to dig up. The good news is that fiber continues to get cheaper.
Verizon was on the right track with FIOS, but unfortunately not enough customers bought into the tech to make it profitable in the timeline they wanted. This is the fundamental problem with very large national ISPs, they cannot scale out the last mile without sinking billions into the network, but because people don't necessarily understand what increased bandwidth means (and yes, lack of competition), there's little business at risk for doing nothing. So once again when the new bandwidth hog hits the network the ISPs are woefully unprepared.
"Well, good luck finding a judge that doesn't run a bestiality site."
And your super thin phone with a non replaceable battery will last one hour on 5G before you have to find a plug.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
"Not enough bought into the tech" and that's somehow the ISPs fault. People voted (like with Trump) and they're getting what they want, or not as the case may be. Wireless also fits in with the reality that the entire US isn't living in a city, and it's not economical to run fiber everywhere.
a ceo was heard ...."where do we need to spy the most "
Interesting claim. Are they planning to bend time and space?
For example, we use Towerstream. They're pretty good - 250Mbps symmetrical for a small office isn't bad.
There!
I really don't understand why my Laptops cannot connect to 5G?
That piss hardware with drivers showing connected to the Wi-Fi does't allow Internet access.
Is it the password that they don't like? Because the 5G didn't work, even when connected to the Internet I am forced to kill.
I had to revert to 2G and will try 5G again. OK.
One thing that is curiously absent from public announcements of new standards is that successive standards proposed by the 3GPP have taken more and more feature of land mobile radio standards like TETRA, DMR, etc.
5G promises to be the first modern standard where LTE could in theory completely replace 2-way radio communication including features such as call priority, preemption, and incredibly short call setup times.
We could be looking at a change in the model by which 2-way radio systems are being provisioned, from a DIY, own your own radio tower and transmitter solution, to a wide coverage area with leased bandwidth solution.
This to me is more interesting than incremental speed increases.
Wow this is awesome! I'll be able to run through my 5 gigabyte data cap EVEN FASTER!!!
Fuck your 5G.
Cue lack of whining about radiation.
I suspect that as per the norm with American (Greedy) cell companies, this "5G" will be nothing more than gussied up 3G at slightly higher speeds than the gussied up 3G they've labelled as "4G".
What they call 4G or LTE doesn't even come close to the original IEEE 4G speeds, yet somehow, either through bribes or blackmail, they forced the IEEE to backpedal and label the U.S. 3G LTE as 4G.
There are people, even in "100% broadband" areas, that can't get better than DSL. What's the fix for that?