Posted on 09/14/2018 7:54:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Verizon started letting people sign up for its new wireless 5G Home high-speed internet service this week. It doesn't just mark the start of the next internet revolution. It obliterates the case for net-neutrality regulations.
On Tuesday, Verizon said that people can start signing up now for its 5G Home, with service starting on Oct. 1 in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento, Calif. Speeds will, the company says, be as fast as 1 Gbps, which is about as fast as Verizon's FIOS gets. It's more than 10 times faster than what the average home gets today.
What's different about 5G Home is that it doesn't require digging trenches or laying cable to hit those blistering speeds. Instead, it uses new wireless transmission technology. That means Verizon can start offering fiber optic speeds anywhere in the country, simply by installing mini cell towers in a given area.
5G Race Is On Other carriers are racing to get their own 5G networks deployed. AT&T says it will launch its first mobile 5G network by the end of this year. T-Mobile aims for a nationwide 5G network in less than two years, with speeds up to 4 Gbps.
All of it means more competition for high-speed internet at home.
And that's why the case for "net neutrality" just collapsed — not that there ever was a good case for it to begin with.
Internet giants pushing the courts to reimpose "net neutrality" regulations that the FCC just killed rest their entire argument on the claim that home broadband today is a monopoly.
In their August filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Internet Association — which includes Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Yelp and others — claimed that "market forces cannot effectively discipline ISP conduct "
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That is true for satellites in geosynchronous orbit (22,236 miles up, about 1/4 second round trip at speed of light).
SpaceX SpaceLink will operate from a network of satellites 680 miles up, which reduces speed-of-light round trip considerably.
Guess you don’t have a microwave oven, or fly on big ‘ole jet airliners, or get X-rays for dental work, or live in an area with rocks, use a cell phone, I will stop there.
I guess you do have plenty of tin foil.
“Guess you don’t have a microwave oven, or fly on big ‘ole jet airliners, or get X-rays for dental work, or live in an area with rocks, use a cell phone, I will stop there.”
Only cell phones emit a continuous microwave signal and it appears that the jury is still out on their long-term effect. FWIW, the few folks I know in IT & engineering aren’t so cavalier about the potential effects of 5G mini-towers.
Well, actually it had to do with certain recreational drugs that were popular at the time.
I work for a wireless carrier that is largest in the country. My area is GA and AL.
Get rid of your tin foil hat, unless you always have to wear it.
5G will make a big difference and change everyone’s use of the internet.
My job for the past few years was set on gearing up for the 5G roll out. I am working on the Super Bowl that will be in Atlanta next year.
I can see why you don't think it's 'a-ok' for your brain, but whether you subscribe or not, your single cell will still be affected.
You might as well use it, it can't hurt your brain.
Fur us rural citizens, high speed internet isn’t a monopoly, it’s a nonopoly. I have zero options. No Comcast, no Charter (formerly Time Warner), no local cable company. The telco, which has a hub site approximately 1 mile (cable distance) from my house and provides basic twisted pair copper for my “landline” telephone system, refuses to install a DSLAM, or any other internet gear (high speed, or not), because it’s not cost effective for them. I get a blazing 1 Mbps download, and around 500 kpbs upload when tethering to my AT&T phone. I got 4-5 Mbps down, and 4-5 Mbps up on a Verizon JetPack hotspot, but that is limited to 15 Gb per month, and then throttled to 600 kbps.
*IF* Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile &/ Sprint installed 5G at either of the two towers less than 2 miles (as the crow, or RF flies) from my house, I, and the hoity-toity neighbors would be on them in a microsecond.
*UNTIL* that happens, we’re hosed.
Here in Houston it’s marketed as $50 a month for current Verizon customers, $70 for new customers. NO monthly cap, NO throttling. What you get for speed is dependent on how close you are to the tower, and how much your trees/house construction interferes with the RF. (Also, those who sign up, and are in the limited neighborhood at launch, get 3 months no charge, while they work out the kinks; at least per the announcement in the local fishwrap).
That particular approach will only work when there are above-ground power lines, so in other areas a different approach will be needed.
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