President Donald J. Trump Is Unleashing America’s 5G Potential

whitehouse.gov ^ | Aug 10, 2020 | White House

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FREEING UP RESOURCES: President Donald J. Trump is taking decisive action to release more spectrum for commercial use, strengthening the United States’ leadership in 5G communications.

• At the President’s direction, the Administration announced that 100 megahertz of contiguous, coast-to-coast mid-band spectrum will be made available for commercial 5G deployment.
  • This spectrum will give Americans access to the greatest 5G networks in the world, leading to cutting-edge innovation, economic prosperity, and strong national security.
• The American wireless industry will be able to build and operate 5G networks nationwide using the 3.45-3.55 GHz band.
• Through collaboration with the Department of Defense, the Administration has worked carefully to ensure commercial use of this critically-needed mid-band spectrum does not compromise military preparedness or national security.
• President Trump’s commitment to strengthening the United States’ leadership in 5G communications is vital to ensuring the security and prosperity of the American people.

LEADING THE WORLD IN 5G READINESS: This action builds on President Trump’s record of success in ensuring that the United States is the global leader in 5G readiness.

• President Trump and his Administration have taken strong action to remove unnecessary regulatory barriers to 5G infrastructure buildout, helping secure America’s place as the world’s leader in 5G readiness.
• The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has freed up more than 5,000 megahertz of spectrum for 5G – far more than any other country in the world – and has also taken action to streamline the permitting process for 5G infrastructure with State and local governments.
• President Trump’s historic tax cuts and deregulatory actions have created incentives for the wireless industry to invest in 5G technology, leading to millions of new American jobs.
• To ensure that our networks are secure, President Trump signed legislation to protect our Nation’s 5G and wireless networks from untrusted companies and foreign adversaries.
• Thanks to the President’s actions, more than 250 million Americans can already access operational 5G networks.

PROTECTING OUR FUTURE: Developing our Nation’s 5G capabilities is part of President Trump’s commitment to protecting America’s technology and defending our freedom in cyberspace.

• In March, President Trump issued the National Strategy to Secure 5G, which outlined his vision for America to lead the development, deployment, and management of secure and reliable 5G communications infrastructure worldwide.
• In 2018, President Trump unveiled our Nation’s first cyber strategy in 15 years, which includes facilitating the evolution and security of 5G.
• President Trump signed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act, helping to equip our Nation in confronting the full range of cyber threats we face.
• In 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order to strengthen the cybersecurity of Federal networks and our critical infrastructure.

 

[dynachrome]

Will Musk’s Starlink be compatible? be better? or work with?

[mylife]

100 mgz is lot of bandwidth, HAMs will be pissed.

[colinhester]

This is in the GHz range. Hams will be fine.

[Paladin2]

There’s NO WAY that 5G will be available anywhere near me for at least 10 years.

It’s WAY over-hyped.

Plus it’s pretty useless trying to get deep into buildings or the woods.

Even in my urban People’s Republic Compound that is close to the center of town, but in a slight depression, 4G barely works.

[SauronOfMordor]

Starlink can provide high speed internet to remote and rural areas that can’t be profitably served by 5g networks.

Starlink requires a pizza box sized antenna, and so can’t directly work with phones.

Beyond that, we will see.

[The Antiyuppie]

Wonderful, now cat videos and porn at 4k 30fps in addition to real-time spying by the feds and hitech, right in your pocket for only 120/month. A great achievement.

[mylife]

They will manage to fuse over surgery and Bill’s, I suppose.

Tough old cobs.

[mylife]

Fuss

[dynachrome]

Thanks. Skynet lives?

[Terry L Smith]

So does this mean I have to bow down, and put my butt under a new att contract for one of these 5G phones, now???

[ConservativeMind]

5G includes hundreds of Mhz of bands below 1,000 Mhz, bands in the 2,000 Mhz area, and 3,000+ Mhz. Carriers are retasking their below 2,500 Mhz holdings for 5G use and there is an apparent ability to have 4G and 5G “play nice” with each other.

The base stations need to be upgraded, but T-Mobile already has this in many areas—you just can’t use it until your phone can handle it. T-Mobile will be using the widest frequencies from each of the above swaths once the latest Sprint bands in the 2,000+ Mhz frequencies has been switched over. The latest 5G chips can, with the proper antennas, concurrently use all 5G bands in aggregation, but phones with that chipset won’t be available until late this year or early next year.

Carriers can much more efficiently reuse spectrum with 5G technology, making many more phone much faster with much less cost and bandwidth. 5G is a “win-win.”

[Paladin2]

"5G is a “win-win.”"

No.

4G "LTE" already doesn't cover US 212 between Belle Fourche and Hardin, much less US 191 from Gallatin Gateway to Big Sky. Not to speak of a total lack of coverage in the National Forest but a few miles from a relatively large metro area that is 340 mi. from the three nearest largest cities. It's gonna be BS for me for a decade.

[Paladin2]

larger...

[Paladin2]

Then there is the whole issue of “Data Limits” on cellular accounts.

It seems that the cellular industry is not happy with supplying a data limit of similar size to that of my way old DSL theoretical throughput.

Their prices/allocations per GB/month have NOT dropped along any kind of Moore’s law:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law]

It’s total BS...

[lowbridge]

Hams will be fine. But what about turkey and roast beef?

Thank you, folks. I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.