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  • CajunArson - Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - link

    It doesn't really matter if Qualcomm gets some modems out to market a few months ahead of Intel when this mythical "millimeter wave" infrastructure is so short-range that it makes your home WiFi router look like a cell tower.
  • Defvphysics - Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - link

    Such an ignorant comment when Verizon just showed a video in the keynote of working mmW 5G at gigabit speeds in various adverse conditions like rain, NLOS, foilage, in building, and including one test with range of 3000+ ft.
  • SquarePeg - Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - link

    Really? You would point to a Verizon marketing/propaganda video as an indication of real world performance? Here's a safe bet for ya, mmwave won't live up to the near miraculous levels of hype. Here's another safe bet, 5G is going to drive up smartphone TCO by a significant margin.
  • CajunArson - Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - link

    Well I guess we have confirmation that Verizon pays shills to sh!t post propaganda that a three year old could see through.

    But wait: I thought 4G was supposed to already be giving us those magical gigabit speeds from way more than a few football fields away!

    You know, like how back in 2016 we were already supposed to have gigabit 4G: https://www.zdnet.com/article/one-gigabit-4g-the-c...

    The hype must always be right! Right?
  • Defvphysics - Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - link

    Well, no. I am actually an engineer that worked with the MTP (Mobile Test Platform), Qualcomm's test platform provided to us for 5G mobility testing. And I can say that, mmW is a challenge, but mmW is not something unreasonable. mmW have been around for a long time, especially in military radar applications. The software and RFICs have come a long way, it's exciting to see mmW in rolling out in commercial applications. I am excited about it. so shills like you that come out to discourage the hardwork that we trying to do to bring new tech to the mass is shit.

    I can't speak for the gigabit 4G. But all i can say is that for 5G, baseband infrastructures designs have been collaborating with chip designers much more and earlier than 3G/4G did, hope this will enable users to reach peak speeds more.
  • lowlymarine - Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - link

    I can't wait for a fancy new power-guzzling 20x20 MIMO 4096 QAM mmwave tachyon-driven antimatter-injected 5G modem to get the same ~30 Mbps average I've been getting on every phone and carrier ever since LTE first rolled out back in 2011.

    I guess making CPU cores that actually deliver remotely comparable performance to your competition (*cough*A12*cough*) doesn't market as well as stupid networking buzzwords, though.
  • Stochastic - Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - link

    "The paradigm of thinking about pricing has to shift. It's not what the technology can do for the customer, it's how they can get value for what it does."

    Translation from corporate speak: get ready to open up your wallets.
  • c933103 - Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - link

    The removal of Net Neutrality make it really convenience. Now with the extra bandwidth, they can advertise things like "unlimited Netflix data: 30USD", "unlimited Spotify data: 15USD", "unlimited yYoutube data: 30USD" and such, selling internet connection according to destination site instead of the volume used by customers, and pay for each individual site that customers want to access.
  • c933103 - Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - link

    AT&T: "customer doesn't need to think about the exact technology - they only care on the performance and what it enables."

    What a flying joke. Why would AT&T advertise "5G" if they think so.

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