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Honestly, safety isn't my biggest complaint about 5g. We already have a wireless standard for short range networks: WiFi. It supports the same bands and multi a
by swiley 6y ago
Honestly, safety isn't my biggest complaint about 5g. We already have a wireless standard for short range networks: WiFi. It supports the same bands and multi antenna beam forming techniques. 5G means replacing open WiFi networks with networks controlled by a handful of companies paying fees to one or two equipment manufactures and pretty much exclusively Qualcomm in the US. Yes, the same Qualcomm that makes Android such a shitty platform by not publish GPU specs/driver code so you can throw out the broken code from the OEM.
- 1241rtfasfasf 6y agoI haven't seen use case proposals where 5G replaces home WiFis. It's often referred to as replacing the last mile to your home (i.e., your home router would talk 4G/5G to the operator and create a WiFi in your home). Also, some "small cell" approaches use WiFi and only do the access management using the mobile network. WiFi on the other hand doesn't have any approaches for wide coverage, cell handover, or any kind of IoT applications. I'd expect that smaller manufacturers emerge, especially for niche use cases outside consumer mass-markets.