Re So What The Heck Does 5G Actually Do? And Is It Worth What The Carriers Are Demanding?

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re So What The Heck Does 5G Actually Do? And Is It Worth What The Carriers Are Demanding?
> Date: July 4, 2018 at 1:35:59 PM GMT+9
> To: dave () farber net
>
> Dave, and everyone:
>
> "5G" is a marketing slogan for... nothing but more 4G. On more spectrum, with more cell sites (including microcells), 
> with relaxed regulations.
>
> The cellular carriers are using this vacuous slogan - and misleading claims that there is a "race to 5G" that we 
> could lose to other nations - to ask for all sorts of government concessions and favors. These include:
>
> 1. Pre-emption of onerous local requirements for cell site location (not necessarily a bad thing);
>
> 2. Changes in spectrum auction policies and allocations so that the cellular oligarchy can monopolize the radio 
> spectrum (a VERY bad thing); and
>
> 3. The freedom to engage in anticompetitive mergers, combinations, and other business practices (such as the merger 
> of T-Mobile and Sprint, which would give the combined company a huge hoard of unused and underused spectrum that 
> other entities - such as WISPs - would put to productive use if the FCC's spectrum licenses were not "forever" as 
> they now seem to be).
>
> In short, it's 99% hype and should be treated as such.
>
> --Brett Glass




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