AT&T’s Current 5G is slower than 4G in Nearly Every City Tested

AT&T phones often get just 5MHz of 5G spectrum, slowing them down in speed tests. By Jon Brodkin, Sept 8, 2020 | Original Ars Technica article here.The conclusions are corroborated by the Washington Post, in their piece: The 5G lie: The network of the future is still slow.   Enlarge / An AT&T sign and …

Verizon Announces Sub-6,000 MHz Nationwide 5G Network

Verizon is promising to reach over 200 million people. By Chaim Gartenberg@cgartenberg Oct 13, 2020 | Original The Verge article here. Verizon is making a big expansion of its 5G network: the carrier is now rolling out nationwide support for the new networking standard, which will reach more than 200 million people. Until now, Verizon’s …

Sept 14, 2020: Forum on 5G Open Radio Access Networks

https://www.fcc.gov/live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzFTx1gnSUc Morning Session Chairman Pai: Good morning and welcome to the FCC forum on open radio access networks. This event originally was scheduled for March, but i hope and expect it will be worth the wait. Thank you all for joining us, especially our conference participants. We have quite a lineup. Among those speaking, …

Palo Alto Retirement Home Residents Fight To Remove 4G/5G Cell Towers

Adapted from an report by Len Kiese, Sep 2, 2020 | Orignal KPIX 5 video and article here. PALO ALTO (KPIX 5) — Wireless carriers are aggressively expanding their 5G networks. But there are still no studies about how safe the technology is. It’s an issue that has divided communities across the Bay Area. One …

Benchmarking the 5G User Experience — 50 Mbps

By Ian Fogg Aug 26, 2020 | Orignal OpenSignal Report here. Opensignal has analyzed the real-world 5G experience of our users across mobile operators in a number of countries globally, including Australia, the U.S. and South Korea. As part of those country reports, we developed a measure to understand the overall mobile experience of 5G …

4G/5G Penetration

For an update, click this link to read US Cities with 5G Coverage. Uh, oh . . . Foundational 4G/5G Security Vulnerability — Listen for Two Minutes How do the US Wireless Carriers Stack Up in 2020? Verizon covers more of the U.S. than any other wireless carrier. You’ll almost always end up paying more …