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Verizon Completes Its Radio Specs for 5G, Pushing Its Agenda For Global Standard Down the Line (cnet.com) 44

Posted by msmash from the pushing-speeds-forward dept.
Roger Cheng, reporting for CNET: The reality of 5G, wireless connectivity that's faster than our speediest home internet service, is years away. But that isn't stopping Verizon from making its presence felt now. The nation's largest wireless carrier said Monday it has worked out the radio specifications for its 5G deployment with its vendor partners, providing a common blueprint for everyone regarding the network infrastructure, processors and devices. It's a significant step on the path to 5G. And by moving quickly now, Verizon hopes to set the agenda for how the standards look, a similar strategy it took with its 4G LTE deployment. Setting the specifications not only speeds the process for its own vendors, but may influence the international community when players around the world finally begin hammering out a global standard, expected in 2020. The Federal Communications Commission is also working to free up resources to drive 5G in the US. [...] Verizon said it will begin commercially deploying its service next year.
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Verizon Completes Its Radio Specs for 5G, Pushing Its Agenda For Global Standard Down the Line

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  • wireless connectivity that's faster than our speediest home internet service, is years away.

    global standard {is} expected in 2020.

    Verizon said it will begin commercially deploying its service next year.

    Either Verizon is managed by Time Lords or the company is going to deploy 5G technology before global standards are agreed.

    • I think one of the other posts may have the answer Verizon's 5G is the rest of the world's 4G. Or my guess, Verizon is branding the service it is going to provide over the freed analog TV frequencies because in Murika, words don't have to mean anything anymore, and coming soon to a spelling bee near you are the words Disney, Verizon, and Scripps.

  • What's the use? (Score:3)

    by PhantomHarlock ( 189617 ) on Monday July 11, 2016 @03:41PM (#52491203)

    What good does extra speed do when there are very low data caps, at least here in the US?

    Right now the typical account gievs you 1 - 3 GB per month. Pretty easy to burn though in no time watching a few videos.

    Their new account tier 'adjustments' announced a few days ago change nothing.

    If higher speeds are to be useful, and mobile streaming is to be useful, they need to do away with the data caps again. Right now we're starting to see a very non-neutrality focusd solution where certain companies streaming services are exempt from the data count. This is a problem when the little indie streaming station I want to listen to is not included. Listener supported indie radio outlets like somaFM.com and Radio Paradise are left out in the cold, shutting out diversity. I can't listen to them in my car, only at home.

    Many people feel that data caps are strictly a business decision, and not a technical issue. Which means that there is not enough competition in the cellular wireless sphere. The barrier to entry in this market is very high so it's not surprising.

    • my first cell phone i had 450 monthly minutes and no texting. each one was like $.25. i remember the days when monthly plans only had like 60 minutes and you drive 5 minutes away from home and you would be roaming and paying a lot more. another few years and data will drop in price

    • Well since they are showing speeds in the Gbps so you could technically blow your data cap in less than a minute.

      • Man, you people are using the wrong carriers, and I guess availability also may have a lot to do with it. I used to be on AT&T with my aunt and even though we had a data plan, I kind of felt like we didn't even have any data because with her soaking up most of the data (no complaints here because it is her account with me as an add on, but that's just the way it seemed) and then adding her grand daughter to the plan who seemed to do nothing but stream YouTube videos and other stuff it seemed like we hit

    • Plug for Google fi: $0.01/MB flat data rate, no minimums, no caps - use no data, pay nothing for data, otherwise pay for what you use. If you're really sucking more than 10GB per month, every month, through your phone, I suppose unlimited data at $100/month makes sense, otherwise... why?

      I really don't want to hear about 5G in marketing, I will actively ridicule any company that "markets" an up-coming 5G network when they can't even deliver reliable 3G data service to so many (populated) areas of the contin

      • That's... not a very good rate. $61.44 for 6 GB of data, when my current plan gives me 6 GB of data for $15.

  • Lads, this is the free market at work. Verizon is using stockholder investments to hire people to scope out the next sector. So long as they have competition, they will raise data caps to account for the new bandwidth (unless it's a total fail - no one finds it adds value, and the stock will drop). All the analog spectrum formerly used to send TV shows like "Beverly Hillbillies" and "Gilligan's Island" could perhaps be better managed, but probably not better managed by cantankerous commenters who see eve

    • I don't think anybody's too worried about the 1% getting better bandwidth... would be interesting if there were a commercial avenue to tap into unused _military_ spectrum for better coverage.

    • I guess you understood "radio specs" to mean something different than everyone else here. Not that I'm convinced as to what degree everyone else has that understanding. As far as I can tell, this likely means that Verizon has a specification for the radio hardware that works on the frequencies it bought ready to go for phone manufacturers who want to sell phones that will work on Verizon's network that it will brand 5G in the United States. I'm not sure what the "agenda for global standard" stuff is about.

      • >I'm not sure what the "agenda for global standard" stuff is about.

        Global spectrum harmonization. Well actually not. This will do nothing to promote global spectrum harmonization.

  • Don't use verizon (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Who cares? They are one of the most corrupt companies in the world and will gouge the shit out of this.

    "You can now download at 1gbps on your phone!! but be careful not to go over your 2gb data plan"

    T-mobile 4 life

  • Deciding what the specs are before they are internationally standardized is the most effective way of ending up out of step with the rest of the world. The US has proved very, very effective at that over the years.

  • It seems that Verizon only talks about international standards when it's trying to impose its will on others. To actually follow global standards is another thing entirely. In the heady cash-by-forklift times of the early Iraq occupation, Verizon was almost given the contract to do Iraq's cellular network [internetnews.com]... in CDMA, of course. Nevermind that every other country in the region was GSM. I think this says a lot about how Verizon thinks about standards.
  • If the FCC had any stones, they would ban any CDMA hardware for 5G that isn't sim card based. Indefensible. The service should be the card, not the whole damn handset. Even an environmental impact argument could be made against Verizon and their locked, proprietary hardware.

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