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In other news, 5G users can now burn through their data cap in under 10 seconds!
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1Gbit/s stationary, 100Mbit/s when moving.
That's good to know I just assumed transmission speeds always meant while moving since it is a phone, I never even thought it meant when stationary.
Translation: "The theoretical numbers we sold LTE with are a good target, maybe this technology lets us deliver that in the real world to all the users who want it."
From what I can tell, this technology isn't about making spectrum more efficient, but opening up new parts of the spectrum (10+GHz) that weren't usable before. edit: nice map of radio spectrum. Being able to use 28GHz seems like a massive leap. http://www.telecomcircle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Spec...
The short-term solution is to open up more spectrum to mobile use, but things are looking pretty congested. http://siliconangle.com/files/2011/03/spectrum_map1.jpg
We might as well drop the whole ?G classification. Since the US carriers started branding stuff 4G that wasn't anywhere close to spec its been a free for all. Marketing aside, the tech might have merit in its own right though. I think the Ka band isn't available for use in my country though...
Edit: According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka_band this band is used for satellite communications, but it very susceptible to attenuation in rain. So it's very cool that a new antenna tech could improve on satellite downlinks, but it still doesn't seem practical for a cell phone.
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Data cap's are indirectly related to transmission speeds so you may always be able to burn though the data cap in under 10 seconds, but competition will still slowly raise the cap as technology improves. IMO, the current 2+GB caps are not that bad, raise that to 20GB and you can watch a fair amount of hulu for example (~50+hours) without a problem.
competition will still slowly raise the cap as technology improves. Has not been my experience at all here in Sweden. Data caps have been lowered across the board over the past year as data speeds and availability has improved.
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Data cap's are indirectly related to transmission speeds so you may always be able to burn though the data cap in under 10 seconds, but competition will still slowly raise the cap as technology improves. IMO, the current 2+GB caps are not that bad, raise that to 20GB and you can watch a fair amount of hulu for example (~50+hours) without a problem.
competition will still slowly raise the cap as technology improves. Has not been my experience at all here in Sweden. Data caps have been lowered across the board over the past year as data speeds and availability has improved.
