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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 hwertz on Wednesday August 07 2019, @04:55PM (1 child)

    by hwertz (8141) on Wednesday August 07 2019, @04:55PM (#877154)

    "I would like to start a company in the east village where we do a complete EMF scan of apartments and demonstrate to fancy lawyers that we have a class action lawsuit."

    Except that won't work. They are certainly following FCC limits; the power used on mmwave is particularly low (it's line of site no matter how they set the power, so there's no reason to use high power.) There's probably more "radiation" (as the anti-cellphone types call it) pouring out of your computer while you type that message than you'll get from cell sites. Oh, are you using a cell phone? Physics fail on you.

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  • (Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday August 08 2019, @09:02AM

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Thursday August 08 2019, @09:02AM (#877373) Journal

    I have read differently, the results of tests and discussion about this is equivocal and not certain.

    'no reason to use high power' strikes me as wrong. Also your use of 'line of sight' also strikes me as wrong because it's going through walls, so that term in this context should be meaningless.

    1 beamed wave may be low power, but you do realize we are talking about thousands of these beams simultaneously for devices that have only the most tenuous claims to the need for the internet, right?