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from the will-it-come-with-rainbow-coloured-unicorns-too? dept.
Verizon will bring ultrafast C-Band 5G to 100 million Americans within weeks:
Verizon Wireless plans to bring its 'Ultra Wideband 5G' service to more than 100 million people in the US later this month, delivering speeds of up to 1Gbps using C-Band spectrum.
5G networks will use a much more diverse range of spectrum than previous generations of mobile technology, with low-band frequencies like 700MHz offering wide coverage and high-band millimetre Wave (mmWave) delivering huge capacity over short distances.
Mid-range C-band 5G spectrum offers a compromise between these two desirable outcomes and will be a vital resource in the rollout of the high-speed networks.
Verizon used mmWave spectrum to become the first operator in the US to launch a commercial 5G service back in 2018 and, along with AT&T, T-Mobile, and US Wireless, won a licence for C-Band airwaves located between 3.7GHz and 3.98GHz in an auction earlier this year that raised $80 billion.
Now we can talk even faster! =)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 11 2022, @03:33PM
5G's purpose (of note, the 60ghz stuff) is meant to use MIT's research on wifi access points as radar emplacements to allow the tracking of individuals in dense urban settings, with or without cellphones. In fact I would hazard to guess they will be looking for individuals in the sea who don't have cell phones and filter the data to only show and track those individuals, perhaps now after the fact, but for the rest, when networking improves, in real time.
Why do you really think they've artificially kept the data rates so low in the US between inferior speeds and data quotas? It's been to ensure the government can record as much of the metadata (and in some cases data) as they can get away with. They already put in a second NSA data center in Utah explicitly for this purpose.