Sprint Talks About 5G and IoT at Big 5G Event

At the Big 5G Event in Denver, Colorado, Sprint talked about their 5G plans and highlighted how 5G will impact IoT in particular. Mishka Dehghan, vice president of 5G development at Sprint Business, talked about Sprint’s Curiosity IoT platform which will power applications ranging from smart city technologies to applications for the medical field. Sprint’s […]

5G may interfere with Weather Forecasts

The new era promised by the advent of 5G technology provides some exciting opportunities. These include much faster data speeds that will enable far quicker downloads. Besides making it possible to download your favorite movies and videos in a flash, these higher speeds could enable the Internet of things and make for improvements in autonomous […]

Verizon 5g for free?

This month Verizon launched 5G in Chicago and Minneapolis and then they announced 20 more cities they plan to have 5g in 2019. Verizon planned on charging an extra $10 per month for 5g with the fee waived for the first three months. However, Verizon now announced this fee will not be charged for users […]

Millimeter-wave 5G will never scale beyond dense urban areas according to T-Mobile

We keep hearing about 5G mobile networks arriving in very limited areas and it having misleading claims by carriers.  What about T-Mobile? T-Mobile is being honest, T-Mobile’s CTO, Neville Ray wrote in a blog post that millimeter-wave spectrum used for 5G “will never materially scale beyond small pockets of 5G hotspots in dense urban environments.” […]

Verizon users can now preorder the 5G Galaxy S10 – and there will soon be 20 more cities to use it in

Verizon promised to launch 5G service in 30 cities in 2019, and they’re moving forward with that goal with the announcement of 20 more cities that will join Chicago and Minneapolis as 5G-covered cities: Atlanta Boston Charlotte Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dallas Des Moines Denver Detroit Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Little Rock Memphis Phoenix Providence San […]

AT&T’s fake 5G icons aren’t going away despite a settlement with Sprint

AT&T is going to continue to use the misleading 5G E-marketing for the 4G LTE-A network after the false advertising Lawsuit. At&t and Sprint met at the US District Judge Vernon Broderick yesterday the 22nd of April, informed him that they had reached a settlement in principle, Broderick wrote in an order paving the way […]

5G will support 22 million jobs by 2035

Good news for tower technicians. Brendon Carr, a commissioner on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission told a college this week domestic 5G roll out will require 20,000 new “skilled workers,” based on estimates from wireless workers. He is working with the National Wireless Safety Alliance to establish training programs for future telecom tower technicians (TTT-1), […]

Apple’s 5G iPhone Is Back on for 2020, thanks to Qualcomm Deal

Apple and Qualcomm have settled their dispute finally, the companies announced today and announced a “multiyear chipset supply agreement,” which sets the date for a 5G-powered iPhone in September 2020 at the latest. They have been in court for about two years over the royalties Qualcomm wanted Apple to pay for using its chips and […]