The push is on to get 5G into consumers’ hands. Like tomorrow. But first, it has to be invented, refined and out there.The good news is that’s already happening. Just last week a pair of U.S. senators introduced, as 360Law described it, “bipartisan legislation aimed at increasing the airwaves available for next-generation wireless services and reducing barriers to broadband deployment.”
U.S. Sens. John Thune, (R-SD), and Bill Nelson, (D-FL), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, introduced the Making Opportunities for Broadband Investment and Limiting Excessive and Needless Obstacles to Wireless, or Mobile Now, Act on February 11. 360Law added the bill codifies President Barack Obama’s 2010 directive to make 500 megahertz of spectrum available for wireless broadband use.”
Just about the same time as serious business was getting done in the Senate, the news ticker clicked off the headline “AT&T Joins Verizon In Trying To Bring You Super-Fast 5G Data.” Wowie zowie, it must be happening. Verizon’s “Newsy” site said “the company (AT&T) says customers could see speeds measured in gigabits per second, instead of megabits per second. That’s really fast.” Really fast means “10-to-100 times faster than the average 4G LTE connection.” Verizon said it is working on a fifth generation network that is 3-to-50 times faster than 4G LTE. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves because “5G Smartphones aren’t ready for mass production and that will take time to rollout,” reported the news site. “And, it will take some time to rollout 5G over the United States.”
Verizon announced last year it is already working on 5G service.
How fast is “fast” you ask? Well, it’s hard to imaging but “with 1Gigabit, a TV show can be downloaded in 3 seconds,” offered the Verizon site.
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