When business leaders spout buzzwords like "AI," "8K" and "5G," sometimes in the same sentence, we often get a sneaking suspicion they don't know what they mean! With President Donald Trump, there's no need to wonder: he clearly has no idea. "What does [6G] do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody's skin?" he mused today, live on TV, right in front of Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, who did not bother to correct him.
T-Mobile has started the rollout of its new 5G tech that can deliver speeds of up to 3.3Gbps using carrier aggregation, which combines four different 5G channels into one for devices that can handle it (only Samsung's newer Galaxy S23 phones at the moment), similar to a trick used by Wi-Fi routers to create a faster connection.
That's even faster than what you'd get out of mmWave 5G, which is more heavily touted by Verizon and AT&T as also being capable of extremely high speeds - Ookla recently reported download speeds of up to 1.6Gbps in the US. However, it has limited range and device support and is easily hampered by common impediments l …
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When I rejoined The Verge in 2018, my first big assignment looked like an absolute peach - fly to the gorgeous Hawaiian island of Maui, sip cool drinks on the sand (The Verge paid for my trip; we don't accept junkets), and become one of the first journalists to experience blazing 5G speeds at a Qualcomm event. Instead, I found myself exposing a lie. The first real-world 5G test turned out to be a dud, the speeds misleading at best, covering up the fact Verizon and AT&T's millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G wasn't ready.
For the next three years, Verizon and AT&T successfully employed a fake-it-till-you-make-it strategy, enlisting politicians to hel …
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AT&T's low-band 5G network is expanding to 28 new regions today, including Austin, Miami, Dallas, and Salt Lake City. If you've been waiting for a slight speed boost over your current LTE connection and have a 5G-compatible phone, you might want to check if your neighborhood is part of this latest expansion.
Technically, we're talking about AT&T's low-band 5G network, which has slightly better speeds and latency compared to 4G LTE. When OpenSignal tested 5G speeds from major phone carriers in downtown cities over the winter, it found AT&T's low-band download speeds averaged 59.3Mbps. The low-band network is not to be confused with AT&T's 5 …
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The Trump administration is trying to accelerate efforts to break ties with Chinese tech giant Huawei when it comes to building out next-generation 5G cell networks, The Wall Street Journal reports. The goal is to create common engineering standards for 5G networks that would allow tech and telecom companies to use US-made equipment over Huawei's. As it stands right now, Huawei is the world's leading telecom hardware provider, and its best-in-class products are sold to large companies that help cell towers and smartphones communicate, among other technical feats.
"The big-picture concept is to have all of the US 5G architecture and infrastr …
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T-Mobile has flipped the switch on its 5G network, setting it live over areas of the US that it says covers 200 million people. While the network is supposedly live today, no one is going to be using it until later this week: the first two phones to support it go on sale this Friday.
The "nationwide" 5G deployment relies on a slower form of 5G, using T-Mobile's 600MHz spectrum. This "low-band" 5G essentially takes airwaves like the ones used for LTE and bundles them together with some new technology to deliver faster speeds.
T-Mobile doesn't offer specifics on what kind of speeds you'll see on the new network, and the actual improvements w …
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AT&T is finally opening its 5G network up to consumers. Next month, the carrier will begin selling the Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G for $1,300, and customers on select unlimited plans will be able to connect it to AT&T's burgeoning 5G network.
Initially, 5G for consumers will be offered in five cities: Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Providence, Rochester, and San Diego. An additional 10 cities, including New York, Boston, and San Francisco, are listed as coming "soon after," and AT&T intends to have nationwide coverage within the first half of 2020.
Speeds are "expected to be comparable" to LTE-Advanced
At launch the network will not offer the fastest …
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Three of Apple's phones will release with 5G connectivity next year with Qualcomm's X55 5G modem, Nikkei reports. This modem will reportedly be paired with a new Apple chipset - likely to be called the A14 Bionic - that'll be the first from the company to be built using a 5-nanometer process. In general, moving to smaller manufacturing processes makes chips more efficient while allowing more processing power to be packed into a smaller space.
This isn't the first time we've heard rumors that Apple is planning on releasing its first 5G phones in 2020, nor is it the first time we've heard there'll be three of them. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo …
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Motorola's Moto Z2 Force is now compatible with the 5G Moto Mod, meaning you can add 5G compatibility to the two-year-old phone on Verizon's 5G network. In a blog post, Motorola said the functionality will be available from this week. Previously, the 5G Moto Mod was only compatible with the Moto Z3 and Z4.
As well as adding 5G functionality to a third device, Motorola says that it's also putting out a software update that will allow its phones to share power intelligently with the 5G Moto Mod. If the power level of either the Mod or the phone drops below a certain level, then the other device will give it some power (depending on whether it …
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AT&T technically launched 5G service in New York City today, but as with its other 5G markets, only business customers and developers will be able to access it. The carrier is selling Samsung's Galaxy S10 5G for those who want to utilize its millimeter wave-based 5G data speeds. AT&T is calling the launch a "limited introduction" and a "first step" for now, but it boasts that this is the 21st city where the company has launched its network.
Despite technically being the first US provider to launch its 5G network last year, AT&T is lagging behind Verizon when it comes to offering a 5G service that regular people can sign up for. Verizon's 5G …
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