T-Mobile, Nokia Reach $3.5 Billion Agreement To Build Nationwide 5G Network (phonedog.com) 40
T-Mobile has entered into a $3.5 billion multi-year agreement with Nokia to build out its 5G network. Nokia will supply T-Mobile with its end-to-end 5G technology, software, and services, including commercial AirScale radio platforms and cloud-native core, AirFrame hardware, CloudBand software, SON, and 5G Acceleration Services," reports PhoneDog. From the report: Nokia will help T-Mobile build a nationwide 5G network that'll use both 600MHz and 28GHz millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum that'll be compliant with 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) standards. T-Mobile has said that it'll deploy its 5G coverage in 30 cities in 2018, including New York City, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. The carrier's first 5G-capable smartphones are expected to arrive in early 2019. The T-Mobile announcement can be viewed here.
5g needs to be legally defined as net neutral (Score:2)
What the what? (Score:2)
Otherwise itâ(TM)s fancy 4g, which was fancy 3g,
I am pretty sure almost everyone omg earth would slap you for such a casual equivalence of 4G with 3G.
I hope someday you are lost and forced to use mapping software over only a 3G connection.
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No problem. Android 2.3+ with GPS and MM Tracker and a bunch of high-resolution Ordnance Survey .QCT files on all my SD cards, purchased (not rented) with "Memory Maps" surveying software for the PC... even a $30 Chinese tablet supports my bodged offline mapping setup!
I don't even need GSM or WiFi for my universal setup to track a satellite, download the almanac, and fix position and height using satellites only in 2 minutes at most. Come the apocalypse, I'll have more maps than most. :-) How long do we thi
Re: What the what? (Score:3)
Until you need to charge them anyway
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I deliberately left that open just for you. I have battery holders, one-use batteries, rechargeable batteries and solar chargers, and wind-up chargers. I use large waterproof map cases to store "kits", containing a device, some batteries, two SD cards containing the maps for each device, and a charging device. Having a number of these packs ensures a networked computing environment anywhere, anytime, whatever the weather for me and my tribe. And they all weigh less together in my pack than my Toshiba Qosmio
Re: What the what? (Score:2)
Looks like you've got everything covered. Good luck with the impending apocalypse.
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perspective!! (Score:3)
perspective,
what FB lost in market cap could have built a fiber to each home and then some.
Re:Underdogs (Score:4, Informative)
I get where you're coming from, networks are kind of business-to-business products consumers never really come into contact with, but networks have been a big part of their business for longer than their mobile phones.
I have to wonder why the interest in 5G (Score:2, Troll)
A) At those speeds you can hit your monthly bandwidth cap in an hour or so.
B) The frequencies involved kinda suck outside of line of sight
I see 2 reasons for the interest
A) Bragging rights
B) Big $$$ on people going over their bandwidth cap.
Dual band (Score:2)
From what I've read 5G is going to be dual band - one near the current frequencies to do long distance at slightly higher bandwidth, and the really high frequency stuff on minicells all over the place to do the high bandwidth stuff.
I've also heard that the idea is to get the 5G and WiFi standards to overlap, so you can hop from one to the other without interruption, and the commodification of the hardware would make it cheap enough to put minicells *everywhere*
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probably true, I for one welcome the X-Men overlords
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Why Germany of course!
Oh. Silly me, I assumed the article was about Finland. In hindsight, $3.5b does seem a bit much to link Helsinki and a bunch of igloos.