By Karl Bode, Dec 28, 2020 | Original Techdirt article here. While unveiling its shiny new 5G-enabled iPhones back in October, Apple brought Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg to the stage to declare that Verizon had launched an updated, "nationwide" 5G network that shores up the company’s 5G coverage. Until now, Verizon has largely embraced "high …
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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 …
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Doug Dawson, Feb 9, 2021 | Original POTS and Pans article here. The cellular companies have made an unprecedented push to get customers interested in 5G. Back in November, I recorded a college football game which enabled me to go back and count the twelve (12) 5G commercials during the game. Advertising during sports events …
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By Timothy Martin: WSJ Korea bureau chief, Nov 9, 2020. | Original Wall Street Journal article here. In South Korea, there are roughly nine million 5G subscribers, making it most 5G-dense place on Earth. The rollout has been plagued by bad reception and a lack of consumer apps. SEOUL — I have lived with 5G …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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By Thomas Osborne, Mar 17, 2020 | Original VA Blog post here In February, VA’s Palo Alto Health Care System became the first 5G-enabled hospital in VA, and among the first in the world. Health Care System director and Army Veteran Thomas J. Fitzgerald III said, “With VA Palo Alto Health Care System being the …
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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 …
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