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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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Don’t expect the new generation of wireless tech to replace fiber, no matter what AT&T says Adapted from an article by Karl Bode, Feb 6, 2019 | Original The Verge article here. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Speaking on the company’s earnings call last week, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said he sees fifth-generation …
Continue reading “5G Cannot Fix American Broadband Problems”
By Doug Dawson | Original Pots and Pans articles here. Link to Part 1 — the Residential Broadband Scheme Sept 4, 2018 — Ronan Dunne, an EVP and President of Verizon Wireless recently made Verizon’s case for aggressively pursuing 5G. This last article in the series looks at Verizon’s claim that they are going to …
It’ll cost $500 for the 5G-capabe modem/router and then $70 a month, data-capped at 15GB per month. Oh, Boy . . . . Adapted from an article by Stephen Shankland, Dec 18, 2018 | Original CNET article here. If you live in one of a dozen US cities, you can tap into AT&T’s 5G network …
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by Ron Amadeo – Dec 14, 2018 | Original ARS Technical article here. We dive into the many ways first-gen 5G hardware will (temporarily?) ruin phone design. 2019 is going to be the year of 5G—at least, that’s what the cellular industry keeps saying. We’re going to see the launch of several 5G smartphones from …
Wireless connections that are 20 times faster? What could be disappointing about that? Don't hold your breath. Adapted from an opinion piece by Mike Elgan, Sept 29, 2018 | Original ComputerWorld editorial here. Nov 25, 2018: Huge Health Crisis Coming From Deployment of 4G and 5G Densified Antennas You’ve heard the claims: 5G will …
By Drew FitzGerald, Sept. 13, 2018 } Original Wall Street Journal article here. City officials also complain they don’t have enough staff to handle the applications. But state and federal authorities are in the carriers’ corner. Small cells, essential for 5G service, include the conspicuous, as in Santa Rosa, Calif. , where the box on …
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Agency expected to Vote to approve plan to override local rules on 9/26/18 By John D. McKinnon Sept. 4, 2018 } Original Wall St. Journal article here. WASHINGTON — Federal regulators will vote in three weeks on a plan to accelerate next-generation 5G wireless networks around the U.S. by overriding some local rules that could …
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by Christian Kallen Aug 9, 2018; Original Sonoma Index-Tribune article here It was almost a full year ago, on Aug. 24, 2017, that the City of Sonoma Planning Department received the first of 10 applications from Verizon to build a series of “wireless telecommunications small cell nodes” in town, the first atop a utility pole …
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by Darius Leszczynski and the Environment and Communities Safe from Radiation Assn. Inc. (ECSFR), July 30, 2018 | Original article here. In the 1980’s, when the 1G mobile technology was commercialized, things were easy for the Telecom industry. Users of the expensive and cumbersome technology were few and, therefore, the number of those aware of …