After roughly a year of getting their 5G home Internet services rolled out, both Verizon and T-Mobile are not only increasing their coverage areas, but their customer base as well. Just recently, T-Mobile reported they had expanded their service’s availability from 30 to 40 million households. For Verizon, they had announced back in January that […]
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How Tile Arrays Can Help Improve the 5G Signal
5G service has been available for several months now, but there are still no amplifiers that support the 5G frequencies. Currently, if you need to boost your 5G signal, you’ll need to do so with a lonely antenna. Back in January we wrote about a plastics company that had been working on hardware to help […]
How Will 5G Affect the Way We View the Super Bowl Halftime Show?
Verizon Wireless is about to make 5G history at this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. They started their journey to provide 5G Ultra Wideband service to 100 million users nationwide and now they’re making even more 5G services available with 5G Home Internet and 5G Business Internet. The most exciting thing to come from this […]
How to select an outdoor antenna for a 4G/5G Router
Before you start the search for an outdoor antenna for your router, consider the following questions: Do you need a cellular antenna, WiFi, GPS, or something that combines these connections? How/ where do you need to mount and how far is it in relation to your cellular router? This will help determine the amount of […]
T-Mobile Certifies the Sierra Wireless XR Series Routers on the 5G Network
Sierra Wireless, a world leading IoT solutions provider, announced today that its AirLink® XR Series cellular routers architected for 5G performance, are certified to operate on T-Mobile’s 5G network – the largest, fastest and most reliable in the United States. This includes the models XR80 and XR90. The supercharged AirLink XR90 is purpose-built for public […]
Avoid Costly Cellular Overages By Disabling this new iOS 15 Feature
With the latest iOS update, 15, there is a new option that allows you to let iCloud backups use your cellular data. Due to the amount of time these backups can take, it could cause you to quickly burn through your cellular data allotment. Even worse, this setting is enabled by default! If you want […]
FCC Updates the US Cellular Coverage Map
It may be no surprise that not everyone that lives in the USA has access to high speed Internet. Some only have the option of cellular broadband service, which of course requires good cellular reception. Those of you who fall into this category will be interested to know that the President and the FCC are […]
How Does 5G Work?
5G is the fifth generation in cellular networks, but there are many layers to consider as we start to become immersed in this new technology. Using a different type of encoding than 4G LTE service, 5G is designed for much lower latency and greater flexibility. Its method for dispersing signals is almost spider web like […]
