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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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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By Jon Brodkin – Oct 10, 2019, 2:17 PM | here As FCC requires more accurate broadband maps, Wireless Carriers want 5G Coverage to be left out. AT&T and other mobile carriers are trying to hide detailed 5G maps from the public despite constantly touting the supposed pace and breadth of their 5G rollouts. With …
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Adapted from an article by Jon Markman, Sept 29, 2019 | Original The Street article here. Wireless companies hope to beam into homes multi-gigabit internet speeds without the cost of laying fiber optic cables all the way to the homes. The companies, instead, will stop short at the Utility pole and to attempt to spray …
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Adapted from an article by Bruce Kushnick, Mar 25, 2019 | Original Medium article here. Kushnick’s Law: “A regulated company will always renege on promises to provide public benefits tomorrow in exchange for regulatory and financial benefits today.” Why do we have the "Race to 5G"? Because 5 comes after 4 . . . this …
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By Ernesto Falcon, Feb 11, 2019 | Original Electronic Frontier Foundation here. Wireless carriers are working hard to talk up 5G (Fifth Generation) wireless as the future of broadband. But don’t be fooled — they are only trying to focus our attention on 5G to try to distract us from their willful failure to invest …
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