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regardless of whether you're one of those diehards who's first in line at
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the Apple Store it always seems to feel like no matter what kind of mobile
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technology that you have in your pocket it quickly becomes yesterday's news and
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that may never be more evident than right now as telecommunications
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providers worldwide are working on
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5G which might be just as big of a deal as when we marveled at being able to
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look at full fat web pages on Tiny phone
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screens oh H come on Luke another G just
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after LTE became super widespread well
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while it's admittedly a bit tricky to keep up with all the freaking different
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Wireless standards and the G's and what they all mean and all that kind of stuff
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which you can learn more about up here the industry is hoping that 5G will be
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good enough to end constant talk of what the next G is good luck with that and
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we'll hopefully only need incremental improvements over time kind of how
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Windows 10 does that and they plan on updating forever see how that goes so
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what the heck is supposed to be so special about 5G anyway well it's being
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centered around the idea that the internet of things that is connected
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devices that enable self-driving cars automated homes and more will become
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very important in the near future and that mobile data networks will need to
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be very robust to handle it all with
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wearables appliances Vehicles mobile AR
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and VR devices and so on one expected to push so much traffic through mobile data
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networks with some devices needing as many as multiple gigabytes per second we
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will need not only faster overall speeds but also lower latency imagine if your
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self-driving car took half a second too
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long to make a critical turn and suddenly you've got a huge dent in your
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Fender or more frighteningly in your body 5G however is not only aiming to
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reduce latency to as low is 1 millisecond to allow realtime operation
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of important devices it also boasts a theoretical maximum speed of 20 gigabits
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per second way faster than the quickest LTE networks today or even Google Fiber
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connections of course this is a theoretical maximum and it looks like
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the bare minimum for the average user will be about 100 megabits though again
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this is still quite a bit faster than real world performance of many LTE
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deployments part of this awesomeness is due to 5gs usage of higher frequency
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waves which also gives it a much greater capacity for beam forming meaning
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signals can be focused onto areas where there's more data traffic compared to
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existing cellular antennas many of which are just omnidirectional and just kind
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of send signals out without regard for where usage is actually concentrated
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which is not good combine that with massive mimo which will allow many users
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to share the same connection simultaneously with multiple antennas on
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a transmitter similar to the newer mu
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mimo networks for home Wi-Fi connections
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and you'll have a network that is not only quicker but also has better
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throughput so the quickly growing number of things connected to the mobile
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internet don't become bottlenecked in fact the industry is hoping to have a
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million devices supported per square kilometer possibly meaning no more
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delays at places like concerts conventions or sporting events of course
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this is a very ambitious project so it's not available quite yet current
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projections have 5G hitting the market sometime in 2019 with it becoming
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widespread around 2025 since providers not only are trying
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to make 5G a more uniform standard than
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what exists today to ensure better compatibility around the world but they
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also need time to build more infrastructure that infrastructure would
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include Signal Boosters since 5G shorter wavelength means it's more prone to
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Signal degradation across great distances but even though most of us
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will have to wait a while to experience 5G trials are already underway in a few
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places in the United States and small scale deployments are expected at the
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2018 and 2020 Olympics to give attendees
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an early look at the tech before it reaches the mainstream so in summary
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