Pepwave will be releasing the Pepwave Max Transit mini July 24, 2019. The Mini supports Band 71 and band 14 this is FirstNet ready. Band 71 operates at a 600mhz frequency that travels twice as far and works four times better in buildings than conventional LTE bands. This Means that Band 71 provides better coverage […]
Category: 5G
5g can’t handle the summer heat
We have known since 5G’s launch that the signals that rely on ‘millimeter wave’ technology don’t generate well through walls, windows, people, or water, including water vapor in the atmosphere. However, now that we’re in July they’re noticing the issues with Summer! According to reports from both The Wall Street Journal and PCMag, the current […]
AT&T President Reveals Why 5G is Taking So Long to Come Out
AT&T hosted its annual Shape conference last month and Newsweek spoke with AT&T President Kevin Petersen to discuss the rollout of gig-speed mobile networks and what that might mean for entertainment and business experiences of the future. The ultimate goal of 5G is to offer speeds that rival the fastest wifi, not all network frequencies […]
Verizon Launches 5G MiFi M1000 Hotspot
Verizon has launched their long-awaited first 5G-capable hotspot, the MiFi M1000 by Inseego. The M1000 will run customers $649.99 outright, or $499.99 with a 2-year contract. The 5G data service itself is also quite costly – 5G data is available with Verizon’s unlimited plan for $90 per month, or if you already have an unlimited […]
Early 5G delivers 112Mbps average and 988Mbps peak speeds
As several of the world’s earliest next-generation cellular carriers have unveiled their peak 5G network speeds, others have relied on uncertain promises of “blazing fast” performance to set customer expectations. Today, crowdsourced network coverage service Opensignal actually discovers early 5G service performance in the first country with “widespread 5G adoption” South Korea and the numbers […]
House Bill Aims to Help US Compete with China for 5G Leadership
China has invested heavily in 5G research and development, and many leaders in the US want to make 5G more of a priority in order to better compete. Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul has introduced a bill that would push the Secretary of State to utilize existing State Department funding to increase the “representation and […]
Real 5G is nearly three times faster than LTE, but not everywhere
It’s all over the internet that 5g is better then 4g LTE, but how much better is it in the real world? According to Opensignal’s crowdsourced data, it’s indeed a lot faster, but mainly in the US! They found that peak download speeds on 5G reach just past 1.8Gbps in the States versus 678Mbps for LTE, […]
Putting 5G Speed to the Test in New York City
Are 5G speeds as fast as they say? Cellular providers have been foreshadowing the arrival of 5G. The ultra-fast network of the future- for many months now. But we should not get too excited, at least, not yet. On Friday the 5th of July, T-Mobile officially turned on the switch on it 5G network in […]
Verizon’s Fiber Infrastructure is Key to 5G
Verizon’s 5G network may have just launched this year, but they have been planning for it for years. The company started their first prep for 5G over 5 years ago when they made the decision to expand on their own fiber network so that it could eventually be used for backhaul for 5G, eliminating the […]
Private 5G could allow Google and Amazon to become Telcos
One of the main selling points with 5G wireless technology to the world is that telecommunications providers have offered the opportunity to enter into new markets and offer new sources of revenue from wireless services. This opportunity to build an Amazon, or something like AWS, leveraging much of the assets that telephone service providers already […]
