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  • Cara posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago

    “The documents say America needs a centralized nationwide 5G network within three years.” Why? The narrative that it’s to protect against China doesn’t make sense to me.
    http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/371148-axios-trump-administration-mulling-nationalization-of-5g-network

    • “5G — shorthand for the fifth generation of wireless networks — will enable a wide range of products, including self-driving cars, virtual reality and other parts of the growing Internet of Things that all rely on super-fast connectivity.”
      “The promise of 5G is not just that consumers will have faster data speeds, but offers two other key benefits:

      Less lag as data moves across the network. That makes it more feasible, for example, to control an industrial machine remotely or to communicate information in real time to a self-driving car.
      While 4G was aimed primarily at smartphones, 5G is designed to handle phones plus all manner of Internet-of-things devices. Some of these devices need very fast connections, while others are tiny sensors that need only a trickle of communication.”
      https://www.axios.com/what-is-5g-wireless-network-151717237-f2b9bbed-6a20-487f-a39b-33b30eaf91c0.html

    • As Joseph has often commented, if the government oligarchs find it so “wonderful”, it must have a dark side.