Here is my collection of relevant trend for 5G networks for 2019:
The most newsworthy stories in wireless today are all about 5G. In 2019, we enter a cautious, early-adoption phase of this next generation of wireless technology. 2019 will be the year when we see the first commercial networks turning on and first handsets arriving in the market. Only a small number of users will get a first taste of 5G in specific geographic locations, using specific applications, none of which are ubiquitous or cost-optimized.
5G promises a paradigm shift in throughput, latency, and scalability.We are not here yet, and may not reach those all those promises in 2019 because we might have to wait to 2020 to get a good selection of devices that can use 5G networks.The initial 5G market in 2019 might not be yet very big. The real business could start in 2020.
It is expected that by 2025, the emerging wireless 5G market is expected to reach a total value of $250B1. 5G is projected to be 100 times faster than 4G LTE. Ericsson forecasts over 1 billion 5G subscriptions for enhanced mobile broadband by the end of 2023, accounting for around 12% of all mobile subscriptions. By end of 2023, close to 50% of all mobile subscriptions in North America are forecast to be for 5G. For Western Europe 5G penetration is expected to be at 21%.
Plenty of publications are going to claim 2019 as “The Year of 5G,” but we are just seeing the first wave which could be seen as not meeting the 5G hype. 5G will arrive into this world as a marketing gimmick. When it does fully roll out, 5G has the potential to be a great but is in a risk that it is already oversold (like what happened to 3G initially). Sure, widespread use is still a few years away, but before handset manufacturers, embedded devices for industrial applications, connected cars, and the like begin to take hold, some infrastructure needs to be in place.
There will be exciting 5G applications coming in 2019. All of the hype and irrational exuberance of a few years ago are turning into initial pilot deployments. 5G is just now getting close to emerging into real wireless networks. Despite the hype, there’s still plenty of work to do and improvements to make. And there will be failed attempts to build those new networks and applications.
The main features of the 5G are high capacity, short delay and the ability to connect a massive number of IoT sensors to the network. 5G network can be used to implement customized network services that are suitable for different needs. The capacity of the 5G network serves to exponentially increase the amount of data.The short delay is important in many different industries. Delay is of great importance in the remote control of self-propelled vehicles and other machines and equipment. It is also seen as useful for AI applications.
Networks start up
Next year, it will be interesting, for example, when the first commercial 5G networks start up.
What is true 5G will be asked often. One question to consider is if these deployed networks will be “true 5G.” It will depend on how 5G is defined. An accepted definition of a 5G subscriber is a device supporting the New Radio (NR) protocol connected to an NR base station. This is independent of which spectrum band the network utilizes. We will see NR deployed across the entire spectrum range depending on what assets operators have available to support their strategy. For the sub-6-GHz infrastructure, Release 15 radio standards specifications are comprehensive. For mmWave the technology has not been defined so clearly yet.5G deployments have begun. Carriers have promised to begin rolling out the technology in the States early 2019. Most initial deployments may be on sub-6-GHz bands, but there will be some fixed wireless use cases using millimeter-wave (mmWave) technologies.
Initially, 5G will provide the ability to deliver mobile broadband at lower cost to operators, but as full NR capability emerges, there are some exciting applications and use cases forthcoming. Industrial automation is one of the promising use cases that may leverage the low latency and high reliability provided by future 5G networks. If you recall the original IMT2020 KPIs set out by the ITU, there are several requirements that will certainly be met, but don’t expect all of the KPIs to be achieved by any operator on Day 1.
Based on recent announcements from key industry players (i.e., Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile), the first 5G commercial deployments will likely commence during the second half of 2019, with a target to have 5G commercial service available in 2020.
One question to consider is if these networks will be “true 5G.” It will depend on how 5G is defined. AT&T’s 5G network goes live in 12 cities — but you can’t use it yet because 5G device sales don’t start until next year.
5G networks will be more or less cloud based. Mobile Operator DNA introduces Nokia’s cloud platforms in its upcoming 5G networks. With the new features, the degree of automation, capacity and programmability of today’s networks can be raised to a new level, according to DNA.
What is the indoor coverage of a 5G network compared to a 4G network? The 3.5 gigahertz frequency used by Telia behaves very similarly to the frequencies used so far, and the 3.5 gigahertz 5G networks are built on the same base stations as the 4G networks.
Once 5G uses mmWave signals, there will still be a lower-frequency (sub 6 GHz) “anchor” to handle data when there’s no mmWave service available. mmWave service will likely be used only when available and needed. Connectivity will be constant in sub 6 GHz bands. For example in Finland majority of first 5G activity will be at 3.5 GHz.We will need both mmWave and lower frequencies to provide what was promised. The very high frequency mmWave is needed to get enough bandwidth to fast data rates.
It seems that many network operators will be retaining all their 4G infrastructure for quite long time. When 5G wireless phone subscribers who don’t enable Wi-Fi end up in 5G dead spots, they’ll be connected via 4G instead. So the bright 5G future for an awful lot of mobile phone use will actually be Wi-Fi and 4G.
Chips
There will be many new mobile chips coming.Release 15 has provided SoC makers such as Qualcomm and Intel with what they need to get baseband processors out the door.
Qualcomm has unveiled the next generation of its Snapdragon family of processors, the 855 – the first chip optimized for bringing 5G connectivity to mobile devices. The 855 is manufactured with a 7-nanometer process. The Snapdragon 855, along with its X50 modem, position the company to dominate the first wave of 5G devices. Samsung and Verizon will partner to release a 5G smartphone using Qualcomm processors in the first half of 2019. AT&T says it’s getting that 5G Samsung phone, too. Currently, at least 18 major companies — including Samsung, Nokia / HMD, Sony, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, HTC, LG, Asus, ZTE, Sharp, Fujitsu, and OnePlus — are working with Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X50 5G NR modems.
Intel is putting bets on its new XMM 8160 5G modem. The XMM 8160 modem is set to be released to manufacturers sometime in the second half of 2019, with the first devices using the chip coming in early 2020. Intel says that the modem will support both millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum as well as lower-band parts of the spectrum. This Intel’s new 5G modem might power Apple’s first 5G iPhones because the company recently switched to using Intel modems exclusively for its 2018 iPhone XS and XR phones.
Huawei and Samsung are both also working on their own in-house 5G modems, too.
5G smartphones
Telia expects that the first devices will be routers, and tablets. It seems that in the first phase, 5G connections will be available to consumers in the form of broadband routers. Inseego has showed a mobile 5G hotspot it will launch at CES for Verizon’s network.
We’re going to see the first wave of 5G handsets appearing in 2019. At least OnePlus, Samsung, and Huawei will compete for the title of the first 5G smartphone.Huawei has promised 5G smart phone before summer. OnePlus and LG have committed to a handset and Samsung, being Samsung, has since committed to two. There will be possibly also other handsets available. It is expected that “flagship” high-end handsets will be the first to integrate some form of 5G radio. Apple is not expected to release a 5G handset until 2020.
There has been already some test 5G smart phones showed on tech shows. Samsung has showed an early version of its first 5G smartphone streaming 4K video to a large-screen TV. Motorola has demoed a 5G upgrade module that attached to its LTE smartphone.
Will you be holding a 5G smartphone in your hands in 2019? If you pay attention to the news, there’s a good chance of that happening. Will You Own a 5G Smartphone in 2019? For most people maybe not. The first 5G service plan prices will be expensive and the speeds will be considerably slower than maximums. In the beginning your 5G handset will likely spend a lot more time using 4G for quite many years. It means that until 5G becomes more ubiquitous, you’re going to be paying a hefty premium for a feature you barely use
What’s the status of 5G standards?
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is defining the 5G standard, which needs to meet the following technical requirements, as defined by the International Telecommunication Union:
>10-Gb/s peak data rates for the enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB)
>1 M/km2 connections for massive machine-type communications (MMTC)
<1-ms latency for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC).
The 5G standard will be defined in two subsequent releases – Release 15 and Release 16.
The Non-Stand-Alone spec came out in 2017 with the stand-alone spec released in June 2018. 3GPP Release 15 is almost done. Updates will include dual connectivity, the ability to simultaneously support LTE and 5G New Radio (5G NR). Download links will likely have both LTE and NR, possibly in the same frequency band but upload could stick to using only one connection. For the sub-6-GHz infrastructure, Release 15 radio standards specifications are comprehensive. Release 15 has provided SoC makers such as Qualcomm and Intel with what they need to get baseband processors out the door. Most of the forward-looking features reside in the baseband and generally will be implemented in software. Release 15 laid down the foundation to enable initial SoCs to be defined and subsequent first user devices to be available in 2019. For mmWave, we are still early in the game.
Work for Release 16 will start with mobile V2x communications. IoT is another aspect of Release 16. We will have to wait for it to become ready.
Technogies
Lower latency, on the order of 1 ms, is an expected feature of 5G. It will be needed for industrial control applications and even more so in V2X communications needed for connected cars. This is the promise, but I expect that the first 5G networks might not be able to fulfill this 1 ms promise.
5G will also drive radio channel counts, whether it be for macro, massive MIMO, small-cell, or mmWave form factors. Macro base stations in the low bands will expand MIMO channel counts from 2T2R to 4T4R and possibly higher. Massive MIMO radios will have increased radio density per system ranging from 16T16R to 64T64R, and mmWave radios will have up to 256 RF channels in the analog beamformers.
Much of the work is still focused on infrastructure: the radios and networks that will carry all that data. There’s still plenty of R&D activity going on modems, antenna arrays, amplifiers, data converters, etc. Power amplifiers (PAs) are a critical component of 5G base stations and user equipment. Because 5G’s emphasis on power savings, engineers are designing PAs using GaN power transistors with some using the Doherty amplifier architecture. We need to continue to reduce size, weight, and power (SWaP) consumption while supporting wider bandwidths and higher operating frequencies.
5G systems claim to be more open than older telecom systems and they use open source components. The mobile industry’s equivalent of open source is Open RAN, which will enable a service creation environment that can help realize the more advanced 5G use cases.
There are hurdles that need to be cleared before full 5G deployment can be achieved. First, we need new spectrum. This is well underway globally with many countries allocating spectrum for 5G. Ideal spectrum allocations for 5G are on the order of 50 MHz or more of contiguous spectrum to take full advantage of NR.
Test equipment is showing signs of use outside the engineering lab as equipment manufacturers and network installers need 5G test equipment. If you design devices that will connect to 5G networks, you’ll probably need also simulations.
With 5G moving out of the lab and onto the street, we will see lots of announcements regarding collaborations the bring 5G design and test products to market. Anritsu and Qualcomm succeeded in testing the 5G-SA connection (Standalone) with the MT8000A testing system and the Qualcomm 5G terminal with 5G NR modem (Snapdragon X50). The commercial offering of these “genuine” 5G connections will begin in China next year.
New interface ODI could be important for 5G testing. Six companies along with the AXIe Consortium and the VITA trade industry group have endorsed a new standard called Optical Data Interface (ODI). ODI is a high-speed interface for instrumentation and embedded systems, supporting speeds up to 80 GBytes/s. ODI is now positioned to address difficult challenges in 5G communications, mil/aero systems, and high-speed data acquisition.
Changes to core network
Core networks need to evolve. Because 5G is expected to reduce latency and increase reliability over LTE, core networks will evolve into software-defined networks (SDNs) that will treat data differently depending on use case. The radio-access networks (RANs) will be modified first to handle 5G NR, but the data packets will route to the 4G core network. Over time, a 5G network core will roll out.
Deploying 5G will require distinct indoor and outdoor strategies. 5G base stations will have to be spaced more closely, necessitating more of them, especially in densely populated areas compared to 3G or 4G. Dual-mode operation (4G/5G + WiFi) is a blessing for operators evolving their networks to 5G. Indoor reception problems are guaranteed with 5G; higher-frequency millimeter wave signals in particular will not penetrate walls.
We will need both mmWave and lower frequencies to provide what was promised. The very high frequency mmWave is needed to get enough bandwidth to fast data rates. But the higher the frequency of a wireless signal, the less well it propagates and the less able it is to penetrate obstacles. Water vapor will cause signal loss at 24 GHz. Oxygen is an impediment at 60 GHz. Verizon and Samsung recently announced a successful data transmission using 800 MHz of bandwidth at 28 GHz, resulting in a maximum throughput of almost 4 Gb/s. A lot of traditional players now talk about how active antennas will become prevalent in mmWave.
There will be need for very many small 5G base stations. Maybe not in 2019, but some years later on urban networks. The strategy has been a combination of small cells with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas to increase coverage. Wireless network operators have been considering small cells for more than 15 years, but if small cells were the best solution for anything we’d have them already. Maybe it is necessity for mmWave based 5G networks. Previous estimates have been that the average distance between 5G base stations might be 250m to 300m. But now most equipment designers are targeting 150 meters to 200 meters apart everywhere, simply to get adequate coverage.
Wireless operators are going to have to install more 5G base stations than they did to support 4G, they’re going to have to install more 5G base stations than they originally estimated. We need lots of new 5G base stations and innovation how to install them to our environment.There will be many different approaches. Manhole cover can server as antennas. 5G base stations will be integrated to street lights, bus stops and advertisement displays.
IoT and autonomous cars
The standards for 5G will be defined in large part by the direct integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices into global networks and devices. There is not yet ready 5G standards for those applications. So for 2019 IoT and IIoT will need to be pretty much stick to 4G technologies like NB-IoT and LTE-M. For 5G to shape industrial computing application in larger scale than just some small tests we will have to wait till 2020. Researchers seeking to impact 5G technologies are focused on how to properly introduce this new species of computing into the mobile networking ecosystem.
Work for Release 16 will start with mobile V2x communications. IoT is another aspect of Release 16, which should make IoT communications more efficient, reliable and lower the latency.
It is believed that 5G’s “big data pipe” will make vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) technologies even more powerful than originally planned. Having a high-data-rate pipe is essential to allowing vehicles to exchange information with each other. Future safety technologies could get bigger with the advent of 5G cellular communications. 5G offers data rates measured in Gigabits per second, whereas the dedicated short-range communication system (DSRC) originally intended for V2X is measured in Megabits per second. More bandwidth could translate into more information and greater safety. There’s also a new evaluation methodology being defined for V2X use cases including vehicle platooning, advanced driving to enable semi-autonomous or fully-autonomous driving, and remote driving.
The 5G technology is first utilized in the industrial sector, where it has promised to have many applications. Addressing the issues behind Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices is important. Qualcomm, the largest supplier of modem chips used in smartphones, has introduced the X50 modem to give IIoT devices the ability to communicate over 5G networks.
Security
Is 5G Technology a Blessing or a Curse for Security? The answer depends who you ask it. There are conflicting schools of thought about 5G security. Ericsson asserts that security has been built into 5G from the ground up. Inverse report warns that 5G’s inevitable internet of things (IoT) wave could create massive security headaches. I think the technology is new and it is inevitable that there will be many security issues until most of them get sorted out.
Trade war hits 5G
The USA vs China trade war will have some effect on the 5G development. USA has claimed that Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE can use their telecom gear to spy on users. The Chinese telecommunications company Huawei is under scrutiny around the globe over concerns that its close ties with the Chinese government present national security threats to the U.S., Europe and allied countries.
Countries like the United States, Australia and Japan have blocked Huawei from building their next-generation, super-fast 5G internet networks. Over the summer, Australia barred Huawei from providing 5G technology for wireless networks over espionage fears. In New Zeland GCSB bans Spark from using Huawei gear for its 5G mobile upgrade. In UK BT plans to remove the Chinese firm’s gear from the core of its networks. Germany’s IT watchdog has expressed scepticism about calls for a boycott of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. German security authority BSI (Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) had not found any evidence that Huawe’s equipment would in any way be less secure than its competitors.
The current situation has caused annoyance, even despair in Huawei’s leadership. Will there be any effect for 5G development of this? SoftBank Corp sees no tech impact from not using Huawei gear.
Applications
Social Automation with 5G: About 20 percent of smart phone users believe that 5G will make it easier to connect to different IoT devices, such as home appliances and many home appliances. I think that those believes are not to be realized by 5G in 2019, because making connections to IoT devices easier is not about 5G, but IoT systems development in general. Adding 5G to the IoT communications jungle had potential to first make configuring the devices harder (more networking options means more complicated settings on device).
Operators have claimed many different applications that 5G would make it possible. In many cases those could be made without 5G and even might have already done before 5G networks become live. Here are some examples:
Remote surgery: Ahmedabad Doctor Claims World’s First Telerobotic Heart Surgery on Patient 32 KM Away article tells that Dr Tejas Patel, an internationally renowned cardiologist, claims to have performed the world’s first cardiovascular stent surgeryoperating from a remote area. I did not seem any mention of 5G used there. I expect that this was performed using fixed network connections that are available now and are more reliable than wireless systems like 5G.
Self driving cars: They are already being tested without 5G. 5G could help here. For Self driving cars have multitude of challenges to get them run properly, and 5G will help to solve only few of them. We will need to wait for Release 16 standard to be implemented to network to see the benefits to autonomous traffic.
Artificial intelligence: We are already doing that without 5G. The current trends seems to be that the AI is made both at the edge device and in the cloud. Using this architecture 5G does not seem to do very much at the moment to help AI solutions.
Industrial applications: The short delay is said to be important in many different industries. And the 5G will be important for industrial applications. I am still waiting for real applications to appear. One question for critical industrial applications will be how reliable the 5G network will be. In the beginning there will always be issues in keeping the network reliable in changing wireless conditions and when the brand new devices have software bug in them. For industrial applications we need to find niches where benefits out-weight the potential risks that network might not be very reliable.
Be warned of “fake 5G”
5G will arrive into this world as a marketing gimmick. We will see lots of “fake 5G” marketing in 2019.
I expect we will see many first commercial 5G network press releases. Many marketers will try to frame their 5G offering to form in which they can claim it to be he “the first commercial 5G”. I expect that many of those news releases will be publishes in magazines as news that claim that 5G just started for real now.Was this really the first commercial 5g networks? Hard to say for sure and depends on criteria what is considered to be be “commercial 5G network”.
This can also mean that something that is not really still only 4G is rebranded as being 5G solution. Verge reports that AT&T customers will start to see a 5G logo appear in the corner of their smartphone next year — not because they’re using a 5G phone connected to a 5G network, but because AT&T is going to start pretending its most advanced 4G LTE tech is 5G.
Another example Forum Virium 5G test project in Helsinki Finland will use 4G LTE based NB-IOT and LTE-M technologies for IoT communications because 5G IoT standards are not ready yet and claims that those 4G solutions are 5G compatible (whatever it means). I think those are confusing and borderline deceptive moves designed to win the coming advertising wars around 5G.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2019/05/16/5g-puhelin-899-eurolla-kesakuussa-elisalta/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Cisco and Dimension Data bond on co-innovation for 5G, IoT, Blockchain, Connected Conservation
https://www.cablinginstall.com/connectivity/article/16479653/cisco-and-dimension-data-bond-on-coinnovation-for-5g-iot-blockchain-connected-conservation?cmpid=&utm_source=enl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cim_data_center_newsletter&utm_content=2019-05-13&eid=289644432&bid=2441562
Cisco and Dimension Data have announced a new co-innovation agreement intended to develop a deeper collaboration environment and framework to jointly solve clients’ business needs.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Big 5G stakeholders roll eyes over edge computing hype: Light Reading
https://www.cablinginstall.com/wireless-5g/article/16470376/big-5g-stakeholders-roll-eyes-over-edge-computing-hype-light-reading?cmpid=&utm_source=enl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cim_data_center_newsletter&utm_content=2019-05-13&eid=289644432&bid=2441562
Reporting from Light Reading’s Big 5G Event, held this month in Denver (May 6-8), Mike Dano notes that “top players in the mobile networking and data center industries are voicing serious concerns” about edge computing.
Jim Poole, VP of ecosystem business development at data center giant Equinix, said that mobile operators would need to completely revise their network designs away from voice services to get edge computing to work in a 5G world. “This whole thing needs to be changed, rearchitected,” he said. “5G is an extraordinarily daunting change.”
The topic of edge computing has generated a significant amount of hype, and many in the space do agree it could play a key role in the ultimate development of 5G technology. But some top players in the mobile networking and data center industries are voicing serious concerns about edge computing in the near and even the medium term.
“Spend enough time in the telecom and technology industries and it becomes clear that the hype of many new technologies usually precedes the reality by 5-10 years. We believe that is the case with micro edge data centers,” wrote Raul Martynek, the CEO of data center provider DataBank, in a lengthy post on LinkedIn.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Huawei will commit to ‘no-spy agreements’ to win government contracts, chairman says amid US pressure on allies over 5G fears
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3010230/huawei-will-commit-no-spy-agreements-win-government-contracts
Concession comes as US presses its allies not to include Huawei as they build their 5G networks
Tomi Engdahl says:
Trump’s Huawei ban ‘wins’ one trade battle, but the US may lose the networking war
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/17/trump-huawei-networking-war/
While U.S. government officials celebrate what they must consider to be a win in their battle against the low-cost, high-performance networking vendor Huawei and other Chinese hardware manufacturers, the country is at risk of falling seriously behind in the broader, global competition for telecom tech and customers.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Julian Chokkattu / Digital Trends:
Tests of Verizon’s 5G in Chicago on the Galaxy S10 5G show download speeds of up to 1.35 Gbps, but speeds were inconsistent, though never fell below 550 Mbps — I’m in Chicago. Again. It’s my second trip to the windy city in the past month, and I don’t expect it to be my last. — Why? 5G!
Verizon’s 5G is blazing fast on the Galaxy S10 5G, if you’re on the right block
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/samsung-galaxy-s10-5g-test-on-verizon-network-chicago/
Verizon’s the first carrier in the U.S. to deploy a 5G network — the next-gen wireless connectivity standard — but it’s only available in select cities. By select cities, I mean Chicago and Minneapolis.
I was here in early April to check out Motorola’s Moto Z3 and the 5G Moto Mod, which was the only phone that worked on 5G as Verizon launched its network. But now the first real 5G phone has arrived. Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G.
I say “real” phone because unlike the Moto Z3, you don’t need to attach a mod to get 5G service. It’s built in, so it looks and feels like a normal smartphone. That does come with one downside: the price. The Galaxy S10 5G will set you back a ridiculous $1,300.
Verizon’s 5G network is still in its infancy. Remember, you can only access 5G speeds in two cities at the moment — though up to 30 more markets are on the way by the end of 2019.
Nevertheless, 5G is exciting. This time around, I saw the tangible benefits of using 5G in everyday situations.
Currently we’re all using 4G LTE on our smartphones for data service;
The next evolution is 5G, which promises speeds between 1Gbps to 10Gbps, with latency (the measure of the delay between data transfer speeds) less than 10 milliseconds.
As a reference, 4G LTE download speeds tend to peak between 150Mbps and 300Mbps, though you’ll usually see around 15Mbps on average.
There are a few approaches carriers are using to roll out 5G, but the pertinent one here is millimeter wave, which is Verizon and AT&T’s approach (Verizon calls its 5G service “Ultra Wideband”). This spectrum can deliver super fast speeds and low latency, but it has poor penetration and low range.
Verizon 5G node in Chicago can only deliver 5G speeds for about a block and a half. 4G LTE is not going anywhere soon; 5G is meant to complement it, at least for the next few years.
Millimeter wave has trouble going through buildings and cars.
These 5G nodes are easy to identify. Verizon’s nodes look like giant black boxes connected to poles, and they’re scattered in a small area of Chicago and Minneapolis.
5G is fast, but there’s a lot of caveats right now
I’m also not talking about latency or upload speeds, because Verizon’s still using the 4G LTE framework for them. I saw less than 30 millisecond latency, but that should drop soon. We won’t see better upload speeds for a while.
Imagine if these 5G nodes were at the airport — you could potentially download several seasons of a show in minutes before boarding the plane. This is the most immediate and most noticeable improvement we’ll see with 5G.
As a reference, 4G LTE download speeds tend to peak between 150Mbps and 300Mbps, though you’ll usually see around 15Mbps on average.
A Verizon 5G node in Chicago can only deliver 5G speeds for about a block and a half
There are a few approaches carriers are using to roll out 5G, but the pertinent one here is millimeter wave, which is Verizon and AT&T’s approach (Verizon calls its 5G service “Ultra Wideband”). This spectrum can deliver super fast speeds and low latency, but it has poor penetration and low range.
That means a Verizon 5G node in Chicago can only deliver 5G speeds for about a block and a half. 4G LTE is not going anywhere soon; 5G is meant to complement it, at least for the next few years. This also means that if you walk into a restaurant on the same block as a 5G node, you will no longer see 5G service. Millimeter wave has trouble going through buildings and cars.
Verizon 5G Node
These 5G nodes are easy to identify. Verizon’s nodes look like giant black boxes connected to poles, and they’re scattered in a small area of Chicago and Minneapolis. The carrier is continuing to roll out more nodes, but don’t expect blanket coverage like you get with 4G LTE. You may see 5G one block, and it will disappear the next.
When I tested the Moto Z3 with the Moto Mod in April, when Verizon launched its 5G network, my average download speeds were around 450Mbps, according to the Speedtest app by Ookla. The highest download speed I hit was 624Mbps.
The Galaxy S10 5G put those numbers to shame. The network is more developed, so the highest I hit on the S10 5G with the same Speedtest app was 1.35Gbps. That’s right, Gigabit.
But just like before, it wasn’t consistent. As I traversed the streets of Chicago node to node, I saw varying results, though it never dipped below 550Mbps. As with the Moto Z3, losing line of sight with the node also meant losing 5G service.
I had to think about how I held the phone. If you cover up all the sides of the S10 5G with two hands, you won’t be able to connect to 5G, just 4G LTE. This is due to the positioning of the antennas in the phone.
5G is fast, but there’s a lot of caveats right now
The cost conundrum
5G is amazing when it’s available, but it’s still not worth it at the moment. Take all the caveats I mentioned earlier, and now add the fact that the S10 5G costs $1,300. That’s absurd. Now think about how Verizon is charging an additional $10 per month to access these 5G speeds on top of your current unlimited plan. 5G is expensive, and you’re better off waiting.
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5G your old phone: HTC’s 5G Hub is now available for pre-order from Sprint
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/htc-5g-hub-mwc-2019/
Brace yourselves: 5G phones are coming, and most of them are expected to cost more than $1,000. And chances are you won’t even be able to use anywhere close to the full speed of 5G most of the time, as the carriers are still deploying their networks. The solution — if you really want to hop on 5G speeds — is HTC’s 5G Hub. It’s a mobile hot spot that goes much further than most devices of its kind.
The 5G Hub brings you 5G without needing to buy a 5G smartphone like the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G or LG V50 ThinQ. It’s a small, wedge-shaped device that you can leave at home or work, or toss in your backpack to use on the go.
Think of the 5G Hub as a secondary phone or tablet, because it’s running Android 9.0 Pie and has a 5-inch HD (1,280 x 720) touchscreen. You can install all the usual Android apps you love through the Google Play Store, stream video and play games
The other key feature is the hub’s ability to connect up to 20 other devices, so if you’re with a team of people — whether it’s friends or coworkers — they can all benefit from 5G speeds by connecting to the 5G Hub.
The hub is currently available for pre-order from Sprint, and it will work on Sprint’s network in the U.S., Telstra in Australia, as well as Three UK, Deutsche Telekom, Elisa, and Sunrise in Europe.
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Vodafone’s 5G UK service to launch in July
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48265421
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Eric Niiler / Wired:
Meteorologists say interference from 5G phones could reduce the accuracy of weather forecasts by 30%, equivalent to the quality of predictions in the 1980s
https://www.wired.com/story/5g-networks-could-throw-weather-forecasting-into-chaos/
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5G NETWORKS COULD THROW WEATHER FORECASTING INTO CHAOS
https://www.wired.com/story/5g-networks-could-throw-weather-forecasting-into-chaos/
IF YOU HAD a choice between a better, faster cell phone signal and an accurate weather forecast, which would you pick? That’s the question facing federal officials as they decide whether to auction off more of the wireless spectrum or heed meteorologists who say that such a move could throw US weather forecasting into chaos.
On Capitol Hill Thursday, NOAA’s acting chief, Neil Jacobs, said that interference from 5G wireless phones could reduce the accuracy of forecasts by 30 percent. That’s equivalent, he said, to the quality of weather predictions four decades ago
That reduction would give coastal residents two or three fewer days to prepare for a hurricane
In March, the FCC began auctioning off its 24-gigahertz frequency band to wireless carriers, despite the objections of scientists at NOAA, NASA, and the American Meteorological Society.
He says that while the FCC can switch which regions of the spectrum it allocates to phone companies, forecasters are stuck. That’s because water vapor emits a faint signal in the atmosphere at a frequency (23.8 GHz) that is extremely close to the one sold for next-generation 5G wireless communications (24 GHz).
“We can’t move away from 23.8 or we would,” Gerth told WIRED. “As far as 5G is concerned, the administration has a priority to put 5G on the spectrum, and they thought this was an OK place to do it. It’s just close to where we are sensing the weather.”
NOAA and NASA want to limit the interference noise to a level closer to what is considered acceptable by the European Union and World Meteorological Organization.
NOAA’s Jacobs told the House committee that the number currently proposed by the FCC would result in a 77 percent data loss from the NOAA satellite’s passive microwave sounders.
In the meantime, Gerth says this issue probably won’t go away anytime soon. The FCC plans future 5G auctions for the radio frequency bands near ones used to detect rain and snow (36–37 GHz), atmospheric temperature (50.2–50.4 GHz), and clouds and ice (80–90 GHz). “This is not one and done,” Gerth added. “Today it’s 23.8, tomorrow it’s 36.”
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TRUMP VOWS SPEEDY PATH TO 5G, BUT OFFERS FEW NEW IDEAS
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-vows-speedy-path-5g-but-few-new-ideas/
PRESIDENT TRUMP FRIDAY confidently declared that the US will lead the world in deploying the next generation of wireless services known as 5G. “The race to 5G is a race that the United States must win,” Trump said at a White House event, flanked by farmers in cowboy hats and workers in hardhats. “It’s a race that we will win.”
But the plan outlined at the event by Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai doesn’t offer any new ideas to accelerate the growth of 5G in the US.
5G networks are expected to eventually make today’s typical home broadband connections feel like the dialup connections of the 1990s. The fear shared by politicians across the political spectrum is that if the US falls behind China in 5G, Chinese companies will overtake US leadership in the global technology industry. Europe fell behind the US in deployment of 3G and 4G networks, which may have helped US companies like Apple and Google become the dominant players in the mobile revolution, ahead of European companies like Nokia, once the biggest handset maker in the world.
Pai said Friday the FCC will hold the largest auction for wireless spectrum licenses in US history in December, making 3,400 megahertz of spectrum available to carriers for 5G networks.
One of the main ways that 5G networks will offer a big boost in speed is by using uncrowded ranges of wireless spectrum that haven’t traditionally been used for broadband. A part of the spectrum known as the “millimeter wave” band has received the most attention.
Millimeter wave signals are easily disrupted by obstacles like trees, people, and even rain. To work around this limitation, carriers plan to deploy lots of small access points
In recent years, carriers have turned their attention to the “mid-band” of the spectrum. The mid-band might provide slower speeds than the millimeter wave band. But carriers could use existing cell towers to deliver wireless service in the mid-band, which should result in cheaper and easier deployment.
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Apple reportedly won’t have its own 5G iPhone chip until 2025
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-wont-have-its-own-5g-modem-until-2025-report/
The company has mentioned that date to prospective hires for an in-house 5G modem team, says a report.
Apple is working on designing its own 5G iPhone chips — but those efforts may take awhile.
According to a report by The Information, Apple may not have a homegrown 5G modem ready for its iPhones for about six years. The company, which is expected to lag Android device makers when it comes to integrating superfast 5G connectivity into phones, has been designing more of the components inside its devices to reduce its reliance on suppliers.
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Huawei poses security threat to UK, says former MI6 chief
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/16/huawei-poses-security-threat-to-uk-says-former-mi6-chief
Report calling for 5G ban in UK comes as Netherlands said to be investigating Huawei espionage
Huawei should be completely banned from supplying 5G mobile networks in the UK because its operations are “subject to influence by the Chinese state”, according to a report by a Conservative MP and two academics.
They argue that a decision announced by Theresa May last month, after a fraught meeting of the National Security Council (NSC), to allow Huawei to supply “non-core” equipment should be overturned because using the company’s technology presents “risks”.
Defending our Data: Huawei, 5G and the Five Eyes
https://henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/defendingourdata/
The first major report into the Government’s proposed 5G solution has dismissed mitigation strategies relied upon to justify the decision as “no solution at all”. Last night, one of the report’s authors – Conservative MP, Bob Seely – warned that Huawei “risks becoming a cyber-Hydra” and warned the assurances relied upon by the Government were “insufficiently robust to justify the associated risks.”
In a strongly worded foreword to the report, the former Chief of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, branded the Government’s strategy a risk “we simply do not need to take”. Dearlove calls on the Government to “reconsider the Huawei decision” and not to “worry about giving offence to China” or “be influenced by the threat of the economic cost”.
The report studies the components the Government proposes to limit Huawei’s involvement to and finds that:
UK cyber experts could not find Trojan Horses within the hardware even if they searched for them. There are documented cases where governments have searched for such Trojans and still not found them all after two years of searching.
UK cyber experts would not be able to remove such security flaws using conventional antivirus software, even if they did find them.
If a third-party introduced such malicious code, Huawei itself would have trouble removing it because its engineering product cycle is not consistent.
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Autonomous Drones Fly Over 5G Trial Network
https://www.eeweb.com/profile/eeweb/news/autonomous-drones-fly-over-5g-trial-network
Percepto successfully demonstrated its autonomous drones using SK Telecom’s 5G trial network. The drone manufacturer has been working with SK Telecom, Korea’s largest mobile operator, to explore the potential of both 5G and autonomous drones.
Powered by computer vision and artificial intelligence, Percepto’s drone-in-a-box systems for industrial and enterprise applications provide constant aerial visual insights to help optimize security and business operations, while reducing risks and operational costs.
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Why I Bought a Galaxy S10 5G
https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1334716
A wireless analyst and former Qualcomm product marketer explains his passion for the new Samsung 5G handset.
Last week people finally had the opportunity to get their hands on the much-awaited Samsung Galaxy S10 5G—the first true premium 5G smartphone. Reviews are divided between skeptics saying 5G is not yet ready and tech enthusiasts touting what 5G has achieved in a short time. The truth is somewhere in between.
Verizon, for example, has announced it will bring 5G to 20 more cities by the end of this year.
Questions linger about the feasibility of mmwave bands. The fact is mmwave bands are inevitable to get the capacity and user experience 5G envisions, so the sooner we start building networks using them the better. Remember mmwave bands are not for coverage but for capacity.
The sub-6 GHz for 5G will soon come to support them through spectrum-sharing in Verizon’s case, or through new deployments for others. And it’s worth noting that Verizon prides itself in building a solid network, so its commitment to mmwave says something.
That brings us to the $1,300 question, should you buy a Galaxy S10 5G now? It depends–everybody’s needs are different.
If you are in the market for a new phone, you should absolutely buy it. The typical life of smartphones nowadays is two years or more. With soon to be expanded 5G coverage, you will get ample 5G usage on the phone during that time.
The $300 extra you are paying to get 5G is well worth it for the future proofing it provides. If you want to save money, then you should buy last year’s phone, rather than spend $1,000 on a new 4G-only phone.
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What’s Going On With 5G?
https://blog.paessler.com/whats-going-on-with-5g
But how far along is it? How long before it starts making an impact?
The improved speed, capacity and latency of connections will have far-reaching applications for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), autonomous vehicles, healthcare, agriculture…in fact, the list is endless.
And it’s just starting to blow up. Although Verizon has provided 5G in the US for a few weeks already, early adopters were initially unimpressed. But since the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G is now out in the wild, some users are reporting GIGABIT download speeds!
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Nokia to help Ooredoo Qatar take 5G lead with its cloud native core network
https://www.nokia.com/about-us/news/releases/2019/05/16/nokia-to-help-ooredoo-qatar-take-5g-lead-with-its-cloud-native-core-network/
Ooredoo Qatar has selected Nokia to build a 5G cloud native core network to support delivery of enhanced mobile broadband services. Nokia’s solution will be deployed in Ooredoo’s state-of-the-art datacenters in Qatar’s capital city Doha.
The cloud-based architecture for core network is scalable, agile and flexible, making it reliable and suitable for extreme mobile broadband and massive/critical machine communication services. Nokia AirFrame, CloudBand, voice and Cloud Packet Core VNFs, and Nuage Networks Software Defined Network (SDN) are being deployed in the core network.
Ooredoo Qatar has emerged as a leader in the global 5G ecosystem and has already tested a number of exciting 5G use cases, including 5G aerial taxis and drones. The company is waiting for the availability of 5G devices to roll out commercial 5G services in the near future.
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We Went Inside The Chinese Telecom Giant That Trump Just Banned (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxR0dNR7qrw
President Trump signed an executive order this week banning U.S. telecommunication companies from using equipment made by foreign firms that pose a national security risk. It’s a sweeping order pretty much targeting, without naming, just one company: the Chinese telecom giant Huawei.
It’s unclear just how the order will damage Huawei’s business globally, but it would likely stop the company from expanding its 5G networking technology into the United States.
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Here’s where the US and China stand in race to 5G networks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2vh5HJJ35Y
Craig Moffett, founder and senior analyst at MoffettNathanson, joins “Squawk Box” to break down where we are in the battle for 5G continues and why it matters.
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Five Myths About 5G, Debunked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu9G7ef9uBg
There are a lot of myths about what the fifth generation of wireless connectivity can and can’t do. WSJ’s Spencer Macnaughton debunks five common 5G myths.
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5G Caught in the Crosshairs of U.S-China Trade Tensions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BojpsOAAkyA
May.17 — President Donald Trump signed an executive order that’s expected to bar U.S. imports of equipment made by Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Alex Webb and Bloomberg Intelligence’s John Butler examine what the move could mean for the future of 5G technology.
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5G: Is It Worth It? No! What Carriers Aren’t Telling You About 5G.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9g7PjACJm4
In this video, David and David explain why they’re not that excited about 5G and determine whether or not 5G is better than LTE.
4G vs LTE vs 5G? What’s the difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E77Uzni_uRE
You’ve probably seen ads with all sorts of naming schemes like 3G, 4G, 4G LTE, 5G, but what does it all mean? What’s the difference between 4G LTE and 4G? Or is there a difference at all?
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The Truth About 5G | FACTS, DANGERS and MYTHS EXPLAINED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3te60b-wCk
In this report we head to Australia’s first 5G cell tower to study the real effects of 5G. Are the birds falling out from the sky? Is it running at real 5G speeds?
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The State of 5G and IoT | Current and Future Applications
https://www.telit.com/blog/state-of-5g-and-iot-current-future-applications/
With 4G speeds reaching comfortable download speeds up to 2 Gbps, expect the next jump to 5G to push mobile performance from 2.4Gbps (current LTE Cat 20) topping out at nearly 20Gbps, boosting the performance and capabilities of newly wired fiber-optic networks.
Internet of Technology (IoT) solutions will connect more than 75 billion devices by 2025. While 5G is not yet available commercially, the coming evolution of communications will bring the world to a faster, smarter future.
Mobile IoT systems are paving the way for 5G
Mobile IoT refers specifically to Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies using licensed spectrum bands. Both 3GPP narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and Long-Term Evolution Machine Type Communications (LTE-M) technologies are integral to the new 5G era of fast broadband communications. LPWA paves the path to 5G with undisrupted information flow. These 4G technologies are expected to continue under full support in 5G networks for many years and releases to come.
3GPP technologies like 4G LTE and 5G are designed to help businesses to reach a wide network across hard-to-reach areas and require both a large deployment strategy and architecture.
Current Applications of 5G IoT
As mentioned above, 4G standards including NB-IoT, LTE-M and LTE which remain integral parts of early releases of 5G, are currently providing mobile IoT solutions for smart cities, smart logistics, and smart metering, but only in small pockets so far.
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5G Vs. WiFi 6: What It Means for IoT in 2019
https://www.iotforall.com/5g-vs-wifi6-iot-2019/
New wireless standards are expected to revolutionize IoT, with blazing speeds, low power requirements and high bandwidth. As WiFi 6 and 5G hit the market in 2019, debates like “5G WiFi 6 vs 5G” for IoT will intensify. But WiFi 6 and 5G may be symbiotic after all.
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Why do we need 5G?
https://www.etsi.org/technologies/5g
Mobile data traffic is rising rapidly, mostly due to video streaming.
With multiple devices, each user has a growing number of connections.
Internet of Things will require networks that must handle billions more devices.
With a growing number of mobiles and increased data traffic both mobiles and networks need to increase energy efficiency.
Network operators are under pressure to reduce operational expenditure, as users get used to flat rate tariffs and don’t wish to pay more.
The mobile communication technology can enable new uses cases (e.g. for ultra-low latency or high reliability cases) and new applications for the industry, opening up new revenue streams also for operators.
So 5G should deliver significantly increased operational performance (e.g. increased spectral efficiency, higher data rates, low latency), as well as superior user experience (near to fixed network but offering full mobility and coverage). 5G needs to cater for massive deployment of Internet of Things, while still offering acceptable levels of energy consumption, equipment cost and network deployment and operation cost. It needs to support a wide variety of applications and services.
What are the main usage scenarios of 5G?
ITU-R has defined the following main usage scenarios for IMT for 2020 and beyond in their Recommendation ITU-R M.2083:
Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) to deal with hugely increased data rates, high user density and very high traffic capacity for hotspot scenarios as well as seamless coverage and high mobility scenarios with still improved used data rates
Massive Machine-type Communications (mMTC) for the IoT, requiring low power consumption and low data rates for very large numbers of connected devices
Ultra-reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC) to cater for safety-critical and mission critical applications
n March 2016, ITU-R invited for candidate radio interface technologies for IMT-2020 in a Circular Letter. The overall objectives of IMT-2020 were set via ITU-R M.2083 and the requirements were provided in ITU-R M.2410 like e.g.:
The minimum requirements:
for peak data rate:: Downlink: 20 Gbit/s, Uplink: 10 Gbit/s
for peak spectral efficiencies: Downlink: 30 bit/s/Hz, Uplink: 15 bit/s/Hz
user plane latency (single user, small packets): 4 ms for eMBB, 1 ms for URLLC
control plane latency (idle => active): 10-20ms
Other requirements:
maximum aggregated system bandwidth: at least 100 MHz, up to 1GHz in higher frequency bands (above 6GHz)
mobility: up to 500km/h in rural eMBB
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ETSI Licensed Shared Access specifications for a trial in Portugal to support 5G deployment
https://www.etsi.org/newsroom/news/1571-etsi-licensed-shared-access-specifications-for-a-trial-in-portugal-to-support-5g-deployment
Spectrum usage in the mid-term will tend to focus more on spectrum sharing among the various radiocommunications systems, as a principle rather than as an exception and technological and regulatory solutions need to be found that allow for this implementation. With 5G coming soon, Licensed Shared Access (LSA) gives carriers new spectrum capabilities in the absence of incumbent.
Based on ETSI specifications TS 103 235, TS 103 154 and TS 103 379 developed by the Technical Committee Reconfigurable Radio Systems (ETSI TC RRS), ANACOM, the Portuguese regulator, finalized successfully an official LSA trial. This pilot project aimed to evaluate implementation of the LSA model in the 2.3 – 2.4GHz band, from a practical point of view and in the light of the realities of the Portuguese situation; a technological demonstrator was created as proof of concept for this purpose.
Today, journalists in Europe use the 2.3 – 2.4GHz frequency band with wireless cameras when they are filming in mobile situations, covering outside events.
Licensed Shared Access is a big step for carriers who will save costs once implemented in their network and solve spectrum scarcity in the lower bands below 6 GHz.
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Next Generation Wi-Fi: Accelerating 5G for All Americans
https://www.newamerica.org/oti/events/next-generation-wi-fi-accelerating-5g-all-americans/
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Lost amidst the hype around super-fast 5th Generation (5G) mobile networks is the reality that the next generation of Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi 6) is ready now. Wi-Fi 6 is capable of providing gigabit-fast 5G capabilities to consumers and businesses in cities, suburbs, and rural areas far sooner and more affordably than cellular networks. What’s missing is access to the wide channels of public airwaves that the Federal Communications Commission has proposed to open for shared, unlicensed use, from 5.9 to 7.2 GHz.
the pending FCC proposals they have championed to expand access to more than 1,200 megahertz of additional unlicensed spectrum needed to fuel the Wi-Fi revolution.
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Europe and 5G: Address the reality — not the myths
https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2019/5/europe-and-5g-address-the-reality-not-the-myths
Europe has played “catch-up” for long enough.
Myths vs reality
Puzzling then, that there is a myth that we are behind in 5G roll-out and 5G technology. Of course, another definition of a myth is something that is not true. The documented fact is that our technology is commercially live with customers who have launched 5G services.
We’re live with multiple operators in the US and Korea, and in Europe we’re live with Swisscom, the first to launch in the region.
targets 90 percent 5G population coverage by the end of the year with the support of our spectrum sharing, which reuses existing 4G bands.
It’s impossible to be behind in 5G when there is no-one in front of us.
The real issue
The real issue on 5G delay in Europe relates primarily to regulatory policies. Actually, Europe is already behind in 4G compared to the US and China.
When 4G was introduced in Europe there was prolonged discussion about use cases. Meanwhile, China and the US raced ahead to build out 4G infrastructure,
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Six members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced The Secure 5G and Beyond Act. The bipartisan legislation calls for the Trump administration to develop an “unclassified national strategy” to protect U.S. allies and consumers from threats to 5G systems.
Bipartisan House bill calls for strategy to protect 5G networks from foreign threats
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/444963-bipartisan-house-bill-calls-for-strategy-to-protect-5g-networks-from
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and five other bipartisan House members on Tuesday introduced a bill meant to protect U.S. telecommunications networks from national security threats from companies such as the Chinese firm Huawei.
The proposal calls for the creation of a national strategy to protect 5G wireless technology from security threats.
The Secure 5G and Beyond Act would require the administration to create an “unclassified national strategy” to protect the U.S. consumers and allies from threats to 5G systems. This strategy would include language on ways to encourage research and development by U.S. companies around maintaining access to 5G for all Americans, and on protecting the “competitiveness” of U.S. companies, along with the privacy of American consumers, against foreign political influence.
“The United States has long been responsible for the groundbreaking achievements of the digital age,” Spanberger said in a statement. “However, the growing prominence of 5G telecommunications systems in China and abroad, particularly through Huawei, should concern all Americans. To protect our national security and maintain our economic strength, we must build a nationwide gameplan to strengthen our mobile networks and protect the privacy of American families.”
https://spanberger.house.gov/uploadedfiles/secure_5g_and_beyond_act.pdf
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From https://semiengineering.com/week-in-review-manufacturing-test-47/
At NIWeek, National Instruments has made several announcements. First, NI announced the mmWave Vector Signal Transceiver (VST), which addresses the test challenges of 5G mmWave transceivers and power amplifiers. In addition, NI has demonstrated a 5G mmWave wafer probe test solution it developed in collaboration with TEL, FormFactor and Reid-Ashman.
http://search.ni.com/nisearch/app/main/p/ap/tech/lang/fi/pg/1/sn/catnav:pr,n4:global/
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NI Introduces mmWave Test Solution to Accelerate the Race to 5G Commercialization
The new mmWave Vector Signal Transceiver reduces the cost and risk of testing 5G NR devices.
http://www.ni.com/newsroom/release/ni-introduces-mmwave-test-solution-to-accelerate-the-race-to-5g-commercialization/en/
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5G Key as ST Aims for $12B in 2021
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334702
At its 2019 Capital Markets Day in London this week, STMicroelectronics emphasized 5G will be a key driver for growth in all its end markets as it aims to reach $12 billion in revenue by the second half of 2021.
Jean-Marc Chery, president & CEO, said that ST has ten “macro” programs that will contribute to its growth, boosted by 5G deployment. He added, “We are strongly convinced we will deliver $12 billion revenue second half of 2021.”
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The Making of the 5G Standard
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334725
There is a lot of buzz about 5G these days, and for good reason. While 3G and 4G have had a long life and the 3G to 4G (LTE) transition was reasonably gradual, the 5G transition will go much faster, even though the technology behind 5G is complex. Some of the changes in the 5G standard include new techniques to encode the control and data packets sent over the 5G radios. There was deep disagreement on which coding techniques to use, but the process worked, and the committee came to a workable solution for the final standards.
This is a peek into the process of how these standards came to be.
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Judge Bans Q’comm’s Cellular Deals
Antitrust decision calls for renewed licenses, impacts 5G
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334731
Qualcomm must end its “no license, no chips” policy and renegotiate all of its existing licenses for cellular patents, a San Jose judge ruled. The 233-page decision will impact virtually all cellular chip and systems vendors on the cusp of a transition to 5G.
Judge Lucy Koh also ruled that Qualcomm cannot enter any exclusive licensing deals, essentially invalidating its recent landmark deal with Apple. In addition, it must license its standards-essential patents (SEPs) to chip rivals and let the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) monitor its licensing practices for seven years.
If it stands, the ruling could slash billions of dollars off of Qualcomm’s existing and future licensing revenues.
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Qualcomm and Lenovo reveal the first Snapdragon-powered 5G PC
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/27/qualcomm-and-lenovo-reveal-the-first-snapdragon-powered-5g-pc/
Qualcomm announced during its Computex press conference today that it will launch the first Snapdragon-powered 5G PC with Lenovo. The two companies describe the PC, called Project Limitless, as “the world’s first 7nm platform purpose-built for PCs that offers 5G connectivity.”
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2019/05/27/qualcomm-and-lenovo-unveil-worlds-first-5g-pc-powered-snapdragon
Tomi Engdahl says:
5G-älypylväskokeilu leviää Espoossa
http://www.etn.fi/index.php/13-news/9523-5g-alypylvaskokeilu-leviaa-espoossa
Nokia Bell Labsin vetämän monialaisen yritysryhmän kehittämiin 5G-älypylväisiin on integroitu 5G-tukiasemia, erilaisia antureita, videokameroita, näyttöjä ja muita laitteita. Yhdessä ne luovat alustan, joka mahdollistaa supernopeat tietoliikenneyhteydet ja älykaupungin tarvitsemat digitaaliset palvelut.
Espooseen uudenlaisia 5G-tukiasemia ja IoT-antureita
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2019/05/28/espooseen-uudenlaisia-5g-tukiasemia-ja-iot-antureita/
Nokian kampuksella Karakalliossa on kehitetty 5G-tekniikkaa valopylväisiin ja esimerkiksi joukkoliikennepysäkeille. Nyt LuxTurrim5G-kehitysprojekti on laajentumassa pikimmiten myös muualle niin Espoossa kuin muissakin kaupungeissa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
5G-puhelimien ennakkomyynti alkoi
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2019/05/28/5g-puhelimien-ennakkomyynti-alkoi/
Elisa kertoi tuoneensa tänään ensimmäisenä ennakkomyyntiin ZTE:n 5G-puhelimet ja -liittymät kuluttaja- ja yritysasiakkaille. Muut operaattorit seurannevat perästä piankin, joten tarjolle tulee myös muidenkin valmistajien 5G-puhelimia.
OnePlussan 5G-puhelimen voi pian ennakkotilata
http://www.etn.fi/index.php/13-news/9525-oneplussan-5g-puhelimen-voi-pian-ennakkotilata
OnePlussan mukaan uuden 7 Pro -puhelimen 5G-versio on ulkonäöltään ja kooltaan identtinen verrattaessa jo myynnissä olevaan OnePlus 7 Prohon. Erot laitteiden välillä löytyvät puhelimen sisältä. Suunnittelussa 5G toi uudenlaisia haasteita puhelimen muotoilulle. OnePlusin 5G-laitteessa on uusi Qualcommin x50-modeemi sekä yhteensä kymmenen antennia, mikä on neljä enemmän kuin 4G-versiossa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Piilaaksolaiselta tuomarilta musertava isku Qualcommille
http://www.etn.fi/index.php/13-news/9522-piilaaksolaiselta-tuomarilta-musertava-isku-qualcommille
Kaliforniassa on käyty pitkään oikeutta siitä, onko Qualcomm käyttänyt väärin hallitsevaa asemaansa mobiilipiirien tekniikan lisensoinnissa. Nyt San Josessa toimiva tuomari Lucy Koh on päättänyt, että yhtiö joutuu neuvottelemaan kaikki lisensointisopimuksensa uusiksi.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nokia CEO sees possible benefits from Huawei tensions
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nokia-5g/nokia-ceo-admits-to-delays-in-rolling-out-5g-idUSKCN1SR1HG
Nokia Chief Executive Rajeev Suri said on Tuesday the company could benefit from a U.S. clampdown on Chinese rival Huawei as the race to roll out 5G services heats up.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Langaton älytehdas – 5G-valmius ja uusia IoT-antureita
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2019/05/21/langaton-alytehdas-5g-valmius-ja-uusia-iot-antureita/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Why It’s Almost Impossible to Extract Huawei From Telecom Networks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVUUspncf4E
Tomi Engdahl says:
Operaattorit kertovat: Näin 5g-liittymät hinnoitellaan Suomessa https://www.is.fi/digitoday/art-2000006123452.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Building 5G Networks
https://www.ericsson.com/en/5g/5g-networks
By 2024, volumes of mobile data traffic are expected to increase by a factor of 5, and 25 percent of that traffic will be carried by 5G networks. Communication service providers now face three main challenges. – First: how to build the capacity required in a dynamic and flexible way. – Second: how best to address operational inefficiencies by leveraging automation and AI. – Third: how to increase the revenue growth by means of service differentiation and the ability to leverage their partners’ ecosystems.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tester sneaks on to T-Mobile’s 5G network in Manhattan, pulls down 500Mbps downloads
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/28/tester-sneaks-on-to-t-mobiles-5g-network-in-manhattan-pulls-down-500mbps-downloads/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Both AT&T and Verizon are in the (very) early stages of rolling out their 5G networks, but T-Mobile is taking a while longer to get everything in order. The carrier hasn’t begun to officially market its 5G network, but one person in New York was able to give it a shot using an unlocked Verizon Galaxy S10 5G — and initial results aren’t bad at all.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/28/tester-sneaks-on-to-t-mobiles-5g-network-in-manhattan-pulls-down-500mbps-downloads/
Tomi Engdahl says:
First T-Mobile 5G Speed Test in NYC Scores 493Mbps
BY SASCHA SEGAN 28 MAY 2019, 6:41 P.M.
https://uk.pcmag.com/news/121040/first-t-mobile-5g-speed-test-in-nyc-scores-493mbps
A prominent network tester snuck onto T-Mobile’s 5G network before launch and got pretty good speeds. Not quite the gigabit speeds we’ve seen from Verizon and AT&T, but really good considering the limited airwaves T-Mobile has to work with.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2019/05/29/spektrianalysaattoreita-5g-nr-verkkojen-testaamiseen/
Tomi Engdahl says:
5G-älypylväskokeilu leviää Espoossa
http://www.etn.fi/index.php/13-news/9523-5g-alypylvaskokeilu-leviaa-espoossa
Tomi Engdahl says:
DNA:n 5G-laajakaistan asiakastestit etenevät
https://www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/dnan-5g-laajakaistan-asiakastestit-etenevat?publisherId=1881&releaseId=69857512
DNA on syksystä alkaen testannut kiinteän 5G:n laajakaistapalvelua vantaalaisella pientaloalueella, ja nyt testit ovat edenneet niin, että palvelu on siirretty aidolle 5G-taajuudelle.
Kiinteä 5G eli pientalojen nopea laajakaista tulee olemaan DNA:n ensimmäinen kaupallinen 5G-tekniikalla tuotettava palvelu. DNA testaa 5G-tekniikkaan liitettyjä radioverkkotoiminallisuuksia, ja aloitti Vantaan testit jo viime vuoden lopulla 4G-taajuudella. Nyt palvelun testaus on siirretty aitoon 3,5 GHz -taajuuteen. Testeissä tutkitaan 3,5 GHz:n taajuusalueen ja mMIMO- eli massive MIMO -antennitekniikan toimintaa kodin laajakaistakäytössä ja markkinoilla olevaa kypsää 4G-tekniikkaa hyödyntäen.
Testikäytössä hyödynnettävät massive MIMO -antennitekniikka ja beamforming eli keilanmuodostus ovat uutta 5G:hen liitettyä radioteknologiaa.
DNA on kehittänyt matkaviestinverkkoaan systemaattisesti kohti 5G:tä ja avannut ensivaiheen 5G-verkon Helsingin ydinkeskustassa. DNA:n koko matkaviestinverkkoon on tuotu laajasti 5G-kyvykästä teknologiaa ja verkon kapasiteettia on kasvatettu 5G:n vaatimuksia vastaavaksi. Uuden 5G-teknologian käyttöönottaminen aloitetaan, kun laadukkaita 5G-päätelaitteita on saatavilla yleisesti.