Anne Frank Funk posted:

great news, i'll be at mwc in a week or so and i can do a special report on 5g and the foldfones supporting it just for this thread. i'm sure it will be more interesting than the op

MrMoo posted:

The one big gain I see is that the radio can now go beyond single duplex, thus in metropolitan areas you can actually get service when full bars are showing, instead of being dead in NYC which was common for a long time before they installed new towers anyway.

The chipset side is rather interesting, you have a monopoly from Qualcomm apparently on the latest and greatest, and 3-4 year development gap (according to some news articles) with Intel, Samsung, and allegedly Huawei following. Huawei have absolutely zero products but have gone for the sensible just modify LTE chipset approach in order to support the typical China landscape, but the others targeting millimeter wave, because it is so amazeballs, but leads to physically larger devices, which clearly is going to be an issue.

* Everything quoted is "according to some news articles", idk.

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In a pure software-defined radio (SDR) system, the entire radio function runs on a general-propose processor (GPP) and only requires analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversions, power amplifiers, and antennas, whereas in typical cases, the system is based upon a programmable dedicated hardware (e.g. ASIC, ASIP, or DSP) and associated control software. Thus, the flexibility offered by a pure SDR improves service life-cycle and cross-platform portability at the cost of lower power and computational efficiency (i.e. ASIC: 1x, DSP: 10x, GPP: 100x).

Poniard posted:

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

currently experiencing the future in one of Nz’s major towns

Silver Alicorn posted:

mo g's mo problem's

Anne Frank Funk posted:

part one of my very important mwc report

5g saves lives



i’m in hall five section g, coincidence? i think not. everyone is welcome to hit me up, just walk around and shout „yospos” and i’ll fish you out of the crowd.

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China Mobile's 5G booth at an exhibit in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong Province in November 2017 Photo: VCG

China Unicom Beijing Tuesday announced the launch of 5G coverage for Tiananmen Square, ahead of the upcoming two sessions, annual meetings of the national legislature and the top political advisory body.

According to the Beijing government's official website, the base stations will provide high-speed internet service to China Media Group's HD livestreaming coverage of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which will be held in early March.

infernal machines posted:

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Axios reported Sunday that there was "widespread confusion" inside the Trump administration as well as "mass uncertainty" after the Trump campaign appeared to back the proposal.

"Lots of policy folks were caught off guard," a senior Trump administration official told Axios.

The confusion came after Politico reported Friday that the Trump campaign was supporting the plan to allow the government to control 5G airwaves and lease access to private wireless providers.

“A 5G wholesale market would drive down costs and provide access to millions of Americans who are currently underserved. This is in line with President Trump’s agenda to benefit all Americans, regardless of geography," Kayleigh McEnany, a Trump 2020 campaign spokeswoman, told Politico.
But Axios reported Sunday that the campaign is now walking back its position.

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At times, the 5G speeds recorded by the Speedtest.net benchmarking test got us the 600-plus megabits per second download speeds Verizon has promised (my peak speed was 634Mbps)," Dolcourt wrote. "Other times, it was closer to 200Mbps, and still other times, the phone professed to be on 5G but acted a lot like 4G. I had a battalion of upload and download tests I was going to try Thursday in downtown Chicago, but it was so hard to keep a 5G connection long enough to run the most basic tests, I had to throw those plans out the window."

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A surgeon in China has performed the world's first remote operation using 5G technology, according to local reports.

The doctor in the southeastern province of Fujian used the next-generation network to control robotic arms in a remote location 30 miles away.

First reported by the South China Morning Post, the surgery was made possible by the extremely low latency of 5G.

Latency occurs when data is sent across a network, either via cables or wirelessly through cell towers, to a device or machine. The higher the latency, the longer those messages take to send.

By lowering the latency to near instantaneous, 5G opens up new possibilities for existing technologies like augmented and virtual reality.

url posted:

i searched this morning.

I read it in an old-timey newspaper, idk if its online, i couldn't find anything (and the search results were grim).

Yes, they were caught - if I remember the details correctly, they had travelled from London to the south coast (Brighton) for the purpose.
(CCTV was relatively commonplace even back then)