Qualcomm Says Over 30 5G-Enabled Devices Will Launch This Year (venturebeat.com)

2019 will be "the year of 5G", Qualcomm says. The company today announced that over 30 5G devices, mostly smartphones, will launch in 2019. From a report: According to Qualcomm, the company has won almost all of the chip contracts underlying 5G deployments for 2019 -- a claim that appears to track with announcements we've heard from individual OEMS, but may be challenged by 5G modem making rival Intel at its own CES press conference this week. [...] During Qualcomm's 5G Summit in December, both Verizon and AT&T announced that they will be releasing Samsung-developed 5G smartphones in 2019 -- notably using Qualcomm 5G modems.

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Just FYI

[slashmydots]

Just so we're all on the same page here, it uses 24–86 GHz so if you are wearing clothes, are behind a wet leaf on a tree, there's snow/fog/rain, are around a corner, or otherwise don't have flawless line of site to the 5G tower, or as I like to call it, short distance router, you're not going to have 5 bars and full throughput. These towers have approximately the same range as a really nice router and since the waves can't pass through basically anything, coverage is spotty and there's a rumor they had to turn the transmission levels up to dangerous and ionizing levels. So 5G is a lie, a scam, won't work, and you'll never get anywhere near the speed they say you will plus a tower has to be built on every street corner or something ridiculous like that.

Re:Just FYI

[sdinfoserv]

well, yes.
And the FCC is busy rewriting code (legal code) to strip local municipalities of their right to manage their open spaces and licensing revenue forcing muni's to permit carriers to mount transmitters on every single light pole, building corner, sign or bump of dirt the carrier desires under the blanket of a "master contract".
It's not like 5G is a just a bogus label over 4G or anything.. right? https://www.theverge.com/2019/...
oops.

Re:Just FYI

[fred6666]

To add to the confusion, 5G also include lower (below 6 GHz) provisions however in that frequency range the speed will be only slightly faster than LTE. This is what most people will experience.

Re:Just FYI

[aitikin]

Sort of. 600 MHz spectrum is being used for 5G as well with T-Mobile, but it'll be 100 Mbps max and it's the reason wireless mics and other devices that were operating in the 600 MHz band can't anymore. Mid band stuff from Sprint will be Massive MIMO...we'll see how well that and their beamforming works... And then there's AT&T and Verzion on mmWave which'll require "small cells" all over to work...so we'll see what happens.

Re:Just FYI

[bobstreo]

well, yes.

And the FCC is busy rewriting code (legal code) to strip local municipalities of their right to manage their open spaces and licensing revenue forcing muni's to permit carriers to mount transmitters on every single light pole, building corner, sign or bump of dirt the carrier desires under the blanket of a "master contract".

It's not like 5G is a just a bogus label over 4G or anything.. right? https://www.theverge.com/2019/...

oops.

In this case, the government shutdown is probably doing us a favor.

Re:Just FYI

[ShanghaiBill]

there's a rumor they had to turn the transmission levels up to dangerous and ionizing levels.

Did you sleep through high school physics? Increasing the intensity of radiation does not make it ionizing. Only increasing the frequency can do that.

Disclaimer: Yes, if you increase the intensity enough, you will get thermal ionization. But then you no longer need a furnace or an oven. Just set the turkey on the kitchen counter, and let the cell tower cook it!

will this be real 5g?

[Anonymous Coward]

or the fake shit they're (at&t, et al) advertising now?

and how many years until it is deployed in areas like storm lake, iowa or devils lake, north dakota.. and not be limited to the largest profit centers (the big metro areas; i.e. 'cherry picked' markets)?

Re:will this be real 5g?

[110010001000]

5G includes new revenue opportunities for carriers that 4G didn't have, so you will see it deployed much more widely.

Re:will this be real 5g?

[bernywork]

I'm trying to find out if you're joking.

I thought AT&T were calling LTE Advanced "5G E"

Of course it's a revenue opportunity for the marketing team, who doesn't want "5G". And the fastest way to deployment is to roll out a "5G E" icon on your existing network.

Do they include the AT&T 5GE?

[gurps_npc]

I mean we JUST got a story about AT&T faking 5G, then Qualcomm announces how there will be all this 5G. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what is going on.

Hurry up

[PPH]

... and get them before they're gone. There's only 50 of them.

Oh, did you mean 50 phone models?

Meh.

[Anonymous Coward]

Meh, my AT&T phone already supports it. And not just simple 5G, but the faster 5G Enhanced!

What's in it for me ?

[farialima]

I've been wondering: as a customer, as a (dumb) user, what does 5G brings me ? Faster speed, I suppose, OK. But what for ?

Maybe I'd pay for 5G if it brings useful stuff - new apps, better apps - but not just a new buzzword standard that I don't really understand.

Seems that telcos are pushing 4G, 5G,... just because they need something new to sell. They are not thinking about customer value. Will not take them very far.

Re:What's in it for me ?

[farialima]

the only feature I could see would be streaming video, right ? But the only time I'd use it, would be when commuting (bus/subway); but it isn't many people ; and connection is barely working in many cities subways so far... not even 3G is working reliably... so I won't buy it for some time...