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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."
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 07 2019, @03:47PM (2 children)
Should read:
I slept in a room I knew was under a 3/4g tower last year and given that knowledge I wanted to believe I could feel it.
I worked under one for years, every one of the thousands of employees did. This was during the time when consipiracy theorists were saying that the big telecomms company knew it was harmful, and were suppressing the results of their research. Those researchers were also in the same office building as me - are you suggesting Nokia was attempting to give all its Kilo (largest office in Espoo at the time) staff brain cancer? That's as crazy as saying that Judas Priest wanted their fans to commit suicide.
I'm with you on the right to sovereignty over your own space though, and think that capturing and decoding any transmission that passes through your own property or self should be legal, so if you can extract a TV station from the waves, then that should be your right, as they literally gave it to you (without your consent, and certainly without any agreement on what this gift may be used for!). (Of course, distrubuting what you capture for personal gain would be another matter entirely.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday August 08 2019, @08:49AM
I think what is going on now is different. I trust the institutions less, the standards less, the government oversight less, the military spook bullshit less, and see in every possible way 5g specifically being implemented in rushed manner with manipulative answers to basic questions.
OF all the companies I trust nokia the best. I am concerned more about the frequencies then the cumulative effects in non-ideal conditions, and the potential ability of the companies and government to focus wave energy as a weapon, which I would need to know at this point was 100% ruled out as a possibility.
I do believe that if you were under a noka tower in a noka building from 2008-2012, what we are facing now is potentially different.
But thank you for your thoughtful reply. And having the ability to decrypt and intercept and use whatever they are beaming is a nice idea but will not help me sleep better at night or compensate my damages if it turns out we can't trust these people, again.
It's the same reason I don't trust monsanto/bayer or microsoft, the organization of the modern mega corporation just lends itself very easily to the imposition of new legal realities through the installation of technology.
Or to put it more succinctly, it is 'tech upgrade as rights downgrade.' Why bother with going through congress if you can just invent something congress doesn't understand and build it under a PR blitz?
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday August 08 2019, @09:20AM
Until I did a blind test, go through 10 rooms with known and measurable emf and see what I could feel, none of us could know.
For some reason that is difficult to do, I'd think it'd be the first thing people should want to check before submitting to this or that generation of broadcasting emf.
I was twitchy and jumpy, I had kindof a facial tick when I was in the room. I didn't sleep as well. I didn't like how it felt and it was an actual relief to move to a different set of rooms.
I'd bet a fair amount I could detect that level of emf in a blind test, it felt different. It might be different when you're trying to relax than it is when you are trying to get stuff done. I was able to write ok and be productive.
Of course we know that the corps would never effect productivity, but relaxation and creativity and longevity etc they don't care a single bit. Fitting as always the same general behavioral pattern you would expect from an occupying alien race.