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| Simon:
Basically you only get a full sense of security if you make your own stuff. But governments change too often to enact such a long lasting policy. This would have benefits in that it employs people and builds local skills and gives a government real control over it's infrastructure. But of course in todays world of privatization that means that multinational corporations need to actually do as they are told rather than tell the government their demands which seems to be more the case these days. |
| Simon:
rebellious colony you mean :-DD |
| Bassman59:
--- Quote from: peter-h on July 16, 2020, 01:58:22 pm ---Also we don't need 5G anyway. --- End quote --- This is the crux of this biscuit! What purpose is served by having a 5G handset/smartphone? What large payloads will you download to a smartphone that need "Speed" -- and where will those files be stored? Web page "speed" is likely a function of server-side capability and internet routing. Existing standards are already sufficiently fast for HD and 4k video, and seriously, watching video on your phone is silly. Sure, you could use a smartphone as a hot-spot, but then you're depending on the phone for its WiFi and routing capabilities, and the phones aren't optimized for that. It seems as if 5G is really a replacement for incumbent internet services -- cable, DSL, FIOS. The customer (home, business) has a 5G modem on site that attaches to a standard router and WiFi hot-spot. |
| Cyberdragon:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on July 16, 2020, 04:39:00 pm --- --- Quote from: peter-h on July 16, 2020, 01:58:22 pm ---Also we don't need 5G anyway. --- End quote --- This is the crux of this biscuit! What purpose is served by having a 5G handset/smartphone? What large payloads will you download to a smartphone that need "Speed" -- and where will those files be stored? Web page "speed" is likely a function of server-side capability and internet routing. Existing standards are already sufficiently fast for HD and 4k video, and seriously, watching video on your phone is silly. Sure, you could use a smartphone as a hot-spot, but then you're depending on the phone for its WiFi and routing capabilities, and the phones aren't optimized for that. It seems as if 5G is really a replacement for incumbent internet services -- cable, DSL, FIOS. The customer (home, business) has a 5G modem on site that attaches to a standard router and WiFi hot-spot. --- End quote --- It's also short range and LOS, so only effective in urban areas. Remote areas will still be served by 4G. |
| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: Cyberdragon on July 16, 2020, 04:52:56 pm ---It's also short range and LOS, so only effective in urban areas. Remote areas will still be served by 4G. --- End quote --- This is not the case. 5G includes both mm-wave (short range, LOS, extremely high bandwidth) and traditional (~700MHz-6GHz) technologies and is fully intended to be able to deploy standalone with no 4G services. |
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