Author: Pat Kline

Verizon 5G coverage is now live in Dallas and Omaha, Nebraska, says the carrier. That brings the network’s 5G service to a total of 15 US cities.
As for specifics, the carrier says Verizon 5G coverage should be found in the following parts of Dallas,Knox/Henderson, Downtown Dallas, Uptown, Medical Center Area, Deep Ellum and around such landmarks as Parkland Memorial Hospital, Children’s Medical Center, Jade Waters Pool, Dallas Comedy House, The Curtain Club, Dallas Theological Seminary and Turtle Creek Park.
You will have access to the 5G network at the following locations in Omaha, Around landmarks such as Old Market, Omaha Children’s Museum, The Orpheum Theatre, The Durham Museum, Heartland of America Park, Central High School, and Creighton University. The reason for this limited coverage is that the frequencies used by 5G are very limited in range, making a 5G base station more like a Wi-Fi router than an LTE antenna.

At the Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles Cradlepoint the leader in cloud-delivered LTE and soon to be 5G supported. Cradlepoint has announced that it has selected the Qualcomm Snapdragon x55 modem-RF system to power the 5G solutions. Cradlepoint is working with major cellular carriers around the world to develop “5G for Business” offerings that address the unique and demanding requirements of enterprise and public sector customers.

On Friday the 18th Verizon announced it has activated the 5G network in three sports venues, has a 4th venue “coming soon,” and will launch at six additional facilities by the end of the this year and the beginning of next year for the NBA and NHL seasons.

The 5G is now live at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona, which hosts the NBA’s Phoenix Suns. The Chase Center in San Francisco where the Golden State Warriors play, and Denver’s Pepsi Center, which serves as a home for the NBA’s Nuggets and the NHL’s Avalanche. Verizon is working to activate 5G in Madison Square Garden in New York City, where the Knicks and Rangers play.

This is the latest in Verizon’s investment in 5G for sports venues. In September Verizon said it would bring 5G Ultra Wideband service to 13 NFL stadiums to correspond with the league’s 100th season. The stadiums include Bank of America Stadium in North Carolina, Broncos Stadium at Mile High in Colorado, CenturyLink Field in Washington, Ford Field in Michigan, Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts, Hard Rock Stadium in Florida, and MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. In some cities, the stadium will be the only place with Verizon 5G.

Germany will not ban Chinese telecoms giant Huawei from establishing the build of its national 5G networks, ignoring calls from the U.S. prohibits the company over national security concerns.

A spokesperson for Germany’s Interior Ministry confirmed in a phone call Wednesday that the decision had been made on Tuesday.

The move is a blow to the U.S., which has been pressuring its allies to exclude Huawei from 5G infrastructure, claiming its presence in the networks would enable Chinese espionage. Countries including Australia and New Zealand have already banned the company from their domestic networks.

Under Chinese law, organizations can be forced to hand over data to the state if requested to do so, but Huawei has repeatedly denied claims that its presence in 5G networks would act as a back door for China.

If you ask the average person what they know about 5G technology, the first thing that will pop into their head will likely be something to do with cellphone technology. And if you consider the 2019 rollout of 5G this far, perhaps that wouldn’t be too far off the mark. The average consumer would also likely recall that 5G is a faster-based technology to 4G LTE, and that wouldn’t be all that inaccurate either.

However, what 5G offers today, how it’s deployed and what the 5G system is going to look like in years to come, will be greatly different. In fact, at the risk of using a stereotype, indeed 5G NR (New Radio) technology is poised to be “disruptive.” That said, this next generation of wireless network technology will also be an enabler across a great number of industries and applications, and in all probability spur all-new use cases as well.

According to Hans Vestberg the CEO of Verizon, The Telephone service giants have three main business rollouts for 5G. There’s the main consumer use case, which includes 5G smartphones, there’s in-home 5G, which the company began rolling out in 2018, and there is the edge-computing 5G, which is the kind of 5G connectivity that businesses will take advantage of. “I think we are going to see an extraordinary impact of 5G in the next couple of years here,” Hans Vestberg said.

5G is the next generation of cellular wireless technology. It’s designed to provide high-bandwidth, low latency connectivity that, in some cases, is 100 times faster than the current 4G LTE connections people rely on today. Verizon has committed to launching its 5G network in 30 cities by the end of 2019.

Hans Vestberg said of the rollout. I think that the progress is really good, We outlined at the beginning of 2019 that we want 30 markets this year, we have so far launched 13 markets, and they are coming at the later part of the year.

The technology industry is counting on fifth-generation wireless, or 5G, to be the next big growth driver for all kinds of new products, from phones and chips to software and sensors. But 5G remains an unorganized idea, and the short-term advantage is no longer quite so clear.

The tech industry expects 5G to deliver speeds 10 to 40 times faster than current 4G LTE networks. Advocates expect its lower latency and data-rate capabilities to drive a new era of applications. But Wall Street analysts are suddenly questioning the rewards.

This past week, Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall wrote that 5G wouldn’t offer much to consumers by 2020. That’s when Apple is expected to release its 5G-enabled iPhones. “5G is a brand, not a feature,” Hall wrote to clients. “We do not believe that 5G offers consumers much in the way of additional utility .” He thinks that other 2020 iPhone features—augmented reality, a new design, and an improved camera—will prove more important to consumers.

China’s 5G buildout. For instance, Rosenblatt Securities notes that local governments in the Asian country are providing subsidies to “speed up 5G network deployments.” As a result, Rosenblatt says, more than 300 cities in China will have 5G networks by the end of 2020. Even Hall, the Goldman Sachs 5G skeptic, expects 120 million 5G smartphones to ship next year, mainly because of China’s aggressive buildout.

U.S. Cellular, the nation’s 5th largest cellular carrier, announced Wednesday that it will be releasing 5G service in Iowa and Wisconsin during the first quarter of 2020.

U.S cellular initial deployment will utilize the 600 MHz spectrum, which is the same low-band spectrum that T-Mobile, the country’s 3rd largest carrier, is first using to deliver broadband 5G coverage. Devices with support for 600 MHz still need to get into more consumers’ hands, but U.S Cellular said even customers with 4G devices will start to experience better network quality as the cellular carrier upgrades cell sites with new 5G technology.

U.S Cellular’s 5G deployment using low-band spectrum will cover hundreds of communities across urban and rural areas in Wisconsin and Iowa, which are two of the largest markets for U.S Cellular’s.

The Fifth-generation wireless technology, or 5G, has been anticipated ushering in an entirely new age of wireless connectivity. Billions of devices including,self-driving cars, service robots, smart devices inside homes, wearable technology and sensors on the streets that will communicate and create freely exposed of sensitive data.

Government and technological leaders working at leading America’s 5G deployment efforts are excited about its potential, but new worry arises as well. Each new device will be an attack vector that the opponent could use to access entire networks. So far, America has yet to embrace a streamlined plan to secure the evolving infrastructure or purge influenced hardware and devices that already exist in today’s systems.

Looks like the $1,299 price tag has not been a deterrent for mobile customers to purchase the Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G after all. Sales of the premium, 5G-capable smartphone represented one-third of all Galaxy Note 10 sales at Verizon in August, Cliff Maldonado, principal analyst and founder of BayStreet Research, told CNET sister site TechRepublic.

Verizon sold 40,000 Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G devices in August, according to Maldonado, outselling all other 5G-capable phones with Verizon and other carriers, including the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G and the LG V50 Think-Q. This is very impressive, given this phone has only become available on Aug. 23, along with the Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10 Plus (without 5G).