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faryl
1/31/2018 5:58:32 PM
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Re: A lot of hands in the cookie jar.
I find it so sad that not only does the US still has areas without decent broadband or cellular coverage, but that this doesn’t seem to be a major priority for our country.
There are whole geographic areas that are basically disconnected from vital commerce, education, & overall information resources.
DHagar
1/31/2018 6:58:31 PM
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Re: A lot of hands in the cookie jar.
@afwriter, thanks! We just have to do some better thinking about what bridges to build on and what design and architecture will move us forward; as opposed to a zero sum game.
faryl
1/31/2018 9:15:49 PM
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Re: A lot of hands in the cookie jar.
I have a sneaking suspicion that just telling people they have 5G will be enough to convince a decent number of people that their service has improved. Frankly I can never tell if speed issues are related to my device or the network.
Re: A lot of hands in the cookie jar.
@faryl - Lol - a little placebo effect at work? It's entirely possible. My experience, at least where my phone speeds are concerned, is that when it's my device, turning it off and back on again generally clears up that problem. If I turn it back on and it's still having issues, I generally apply it to the network and then wait 30 minutes to an hour.
Re: A lot of hands in the cookie jar.
@faryl: Sure. Isn't that the tack that one of the big telcos here in the US took for a time with "4G" before they actually had real 4G?
Re: A lot of hands in the cookie jar.
@Kishore: Indeed. After all, we're talking about a mere proposal. An idea. Put forth by the National Security Council -- an entity whose very existence is dedicated to the idea of national security before all else.
When put in this context -- which the headlines and tweets don't make explicit -- the "news" of this proposal (and that's all it is) isn't actually surprising at all.
afwriter
2/1/2018 12:16:16 PM
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Re: A lot of hands in the cookie jar.
@Faryl, I think that it comes down to a money issue for most companies, they are not going to put the money and effort into building out infrastructure or putting up a tower when only a few subscribers will want it. I do have to agree with you though that those areas and the people who want access to the internet are being done a serious disservice by not having access in any way.
mhhf1ve
2/1/2018 2:24:09 PM
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Re: A lot of hands in the cookie jar.
A nationalized 5G network would be complicated -- especially since most of the "good" spectrum" has already been auctioned off to private companies. The government has some military spectrum -- and there's maybe some "citizen band" spectrum -- but that's probably nowhere near enough to handle a true 5G network (with current wireless technologies).
That said, I'm not surprised that the "proposal" exists -- I'm sure policy makers try to cover all bases of what they could potentially do. And they throw out the outlandish ideas that would never work. like a nationalized 5G network...
batye
2/3/2018 1:03:00 AM
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Re: A lot of hands in the cookie jar.
@afwriter good point I could not agree more as simular problem we have in Canada... even our gov. did declared Internet essential service... Go figure... ???
batye
2/3/2018 1:05:53 AM
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Re: A lot of hands in the cookie jar.
@DHagar could not agree more in my books it must be done as true step forward not a lip service what many Co. keep offering this day, while playing game wait and see...
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