By Karl Bode, Jan 27, 2020 | Original Techdirt article here. We’ve noted for a while that the "race to 5G" is largely just the byproduct of telecom lobbyists hoping to spike lagging smartphone and network hardware sales. The society-altering impacts of the technology are extremely over-hyped, international efforts to deploy the faster wireless standard …
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Adapted from an article by John Hendel, Dec 29, 2019 | Original POLITICO article here. Who Needs So-Called "Small" Cells on Utility Poles in front of houses? NO ONE . . . because 4G AND 5G antennas can be installed on Macro Towers, Just like the one shown below and the other one in the …
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Fulfilling Its marketing promise for 2019, but this is only partial — and very limited — coverage in each of these markets By Sascha Segan, Dec 23, 2019 | Original PC Magazine article here Verizon fulfilled the marketing promise it made to have 5G in 30 cities, but that isn’t translating into broad coverage across …
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Adapted from an article by Dominique Maria Bonessi, Dec 6, 2019 | Original WAMU article here. There’s a battle playing out between state and local governments over who should be allowed to regulate 5G — the new mobile technology that will hasten internet data speeds. But at a hearing in Montgomery County last month, that …
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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 Oct 8, 2019 "Project Censored" article here, by Student Researcher Jamie Wells and Faculty Evaluator Kenn Burrows (SF State). The prevalence of wireless technologies has spawned a telecommunications revolution that increasingly exposes the public to broader bandwidths and more frequencies (low-band, mid-band and high-band) of pulsed, data-modulated, Radio-frequency Electromagnetic Microwave Radiation (RF-EMR). …
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By Claire Edwards, Oct 4, 2019 | Original Global Research article here. The telecommunications companies and the mainstream media would have you believe that the race to roll out Densified 43G + 5G is unstoppable. That you are nothing and no one in the face of a lethal multi-trillion-dollar agenda imposed by some of the …
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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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By Christopher Mims, Aug 24, 2019 | Original Wall Street Journal article here Jack Tibbetts, a member of the Santa Rosa, Calif., city council, knew he had a problem. It was early 2018, and he’d started getting calls from constituents at opposite ends of the political spectrum. The common thread: cellular antennas going up next to …
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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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