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AT&T Turns On 5G In New York, But It Still Isn't Available To Consumers

posted by chromas on Wednesday August 07 2019, @07:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the still-waiting-on-4G dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The new millimeter-wave network, or what AT&T calls "5G+," will be available in "parts" of New York City, though parts may be a bit of a stretch. In its release, AT&T acknowledges that the service will be in "limited areas initially" with a company spokesperson telling CNET that the new service will be available first in parts "near and around East Village, Greenwich Village and Gramercy Park."

[...] "As a densely-populated, global business and entertainment hub, New York City stands to benefit greatly from having access to 5G, and we've been eager to introduce the service here," said Amy Kramer, president of AT&T's New York region, in a statement. "While our initial availability in NYC is a limited introduction at launch, we're committed to working closely with the City to extend coverage to more neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs."

[...] It is still unclear when AT&T will make 5G available to everyone, but the company plans to deploy a nationwide 5G network on its wider-ranging "sub-6" spectrum in the "first half of 2020."

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 07 2019, @03:52PM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday August 07 2019, @03:52PM (#877121) Homepage
    That vid's almost completely irrelevant to the topic. You're not interacting by touch over the 5G network. If you are, bin your OS, you should be using a fat client on such a device, and therefore interacting by touch only with your local GUI.
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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday August 07 2019, @04:26PM (2 children)

    by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday August 07 2019, @04:26PM (#877141)

    You're not interacting by touch over the 5G network.

    Augmented reality rendering isn't likely to be done locally for quite some time. The resolutions are just too high even for contemporary discrete graphics that draw hundreds of w from the grid let alone on-battery glasses. And bobbing your head isn't all that different from dragging a mouse / swiping a finger.

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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 08 2019, @06:59AM (1 child)

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday August 08 2019, @06:59AM (#877347) Homepage
      That depends on what you want to render. If all you want is an overlay showing you tripadvisor scores as you walk down the streets of a new town, then that can easily be done using a local dataset or tile-based prefetching.
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      • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday August 08 2019, @07:35AM

        by RamiK (1813) on Thursday August 08 2019, @07:35AM (#877356)

        Yeah but we all know the killer app is going to be some variant of Pokemon Go since it already happened and since we're discussing why tech companies are deploying and investing rather than what we want out of it...

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