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5G isn't just millimeter wave. Over the next few years, the majority of 5G will be on the 2496 to 2690 MHz (T-Mobile on recycled Sprint spectrum) and 3450 to 39

by drmpeg 5y ago

5G isn't just millimeter wave. Over the next few years, the majority of 5G will be on the 2496 to 2690 MHz (T-Mobile on recycled Sprint spectrum) and 3450 to 3980 MHz (AT&T, Dish and Verizon on 3.45 GHz, CBRS and C-band) bands.

trompetenaccoun 5y ago
>Over the next few years, the majority of 5G will be on the 2496 to 2690 MHz Of course it will be because of the above mentioned problems. There is no way they'll be able to put up that many antennas any time soon, it will be a slow process. Those frequencies you cite are about the same as current 4G, with only the latter being slightly but not significantly higher. It's part of the reason people who try 5G end up disappointed it's not as fast as they expected. The question is who is this actually a good deal for? Do consumers understand they're going to pay those hundreds of billions? Do they understand 5G means having antennas all over the place? And do they understand the privacy concerns? Most in my experience do not. I also find it interesting that right from the start there was a ton of noise in the news about "conspiracy theorists" fearing 5G for ridiculous nonsense reasons. Just the sort of thing you'd expect from a black propaganda campaign. But there was few talk about the actual tech, no talk about who decides these standards and why the entire world is supposed to sign up. Do people know for example a Huawei guy is chairing the group that's bringing us wlan sensing with a noval 802.11bf wifi standard as well? So the milimeter scanners will be in our homes and outdoors as well. In my experience almost no one outside of niche tech bubbles knows anything about this. They just know faster internet good, they have no idea about the politics behind all this. https://www.ieee802.org/11/Reports/tgbf_update.htm https://www.ieee802.org/11/Reports/tgbf_update.htm
- coffeecat 5y ago
  It's worth pointing out that 5G is just a protocol which can, in principle, be operated on any of the frequency bands currently used for LTE. For instance, T-Mobile is currently providing 5G and LTE concurrently on their 600 MHz band.

by drmpeg 5y ago

trompetenaccoun 5y ago

>Over the next few years, the majority of 5G will be on the 2496 to 2690 MHz Of course it will be because of the above mentioned problems. There is no way they'll be able to put up that many antennas any time soon, it will be a slow process. Those frequencies you cite are about the same as current 4G, with only the latter being slightly but not significantly higher. It's part of the reason people who try 5G end up disappointed it's not as fast as they expected. The question is who is this actually a good deal for? Do consumers understand they're going to pay those hundreds of billions? Do they understand 5G means having antennas all over the place? And do they understand the privacy concerns? Most in my experience do not. I also find it interesting that right from the start there was a ton of noise in the news about "conspiracy theorists" fearing 5G for ridiculous nonsense reasons. Just the sort of thing you'd expect from a black propaganda campaign. But there was few talk about the actual tech, no talk about who decides these standards and why the entire world is supposed to sign up. Do people know for example a Huawei guy is chairing the group that's bringing us wlan sensing with a noval 802.11bf wifi standard as well? So the milimeter scanners will be in our homes and outdoors as well. In my experience almost no one outside of niche tech bubbles knows anything about this. They just know faster internet good, they have no idea about the politics behind all this. https://www.ieee802.org/11/Reports/tgbf_update.htm https://www.ieee802.org/11/Reports/tgbf_update.htm

coffeecat 5y ago
It's worth pointing out that 5G is just a protocol which can, in principle, be operated on any of the frequency bands currently used for LTE. For instance, T-Mobile is currently providing 5G and LTE concurrently on their 600 MHz band.