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Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying

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Re: Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying

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You can already stream online courses and watch educational videos with 4g... same with wireless medical devices. What does 5g offer that 4g already hasn't?

5g has higher capacity, but shorter range, so cells will need to be closer together, i.e. greater density - therefore location tracking precision will appear to improve, so the big corporations will be better able to finely tune targeted ads in HD to a more specific demographic of consumers. 5G offers:- - bigger numbers and promise of a brighter future for consumers that are impressed by that kind of thing and are ha…

There might be incidental location disclosure, but even with 2/3/4G the network operator has pretty good location information, typical precision being 10s of meters or even less.

Re: Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying

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> Right now your phone has a sim-card. [...] But there is not one in your TV or the lights in your bathroom. But at some point telecommunications technology is going to be so cheap that drawing a wire to connect a button to a light is going to be the expensive option. You don't need a SIM card or 5G for that. Technologies like 802.15.4, or even simpler, are more than enough.

Ethernet over Powerline LANs could also theoretically be used for those applications, since your TV, lightbulbs, etc will be running off mains power anyway.

Please don't use powerline broadband noise sources.
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