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Comment Re:How is that meant to work (Score 2) 49

What? 5G is just the protocol types, the frequencies it works in varies.

T-Mobile in the US has 5G Band n71 which works in the old Over-The-Air TV frequencies of 600MHz, and they bid for that one on the exact premise the signal travels further.

Other frequencies have other characteristics of course but...

Comment But code was already said to be speech... (Score 1) 22

Anyone remember reading /. back in 1998-2000ish with the DeCSS and the legality questions around it?
It was determined the uncompiled source code was a former of speech and was protected, and is one reason Teeshirts were printed up with the DeCSS code on them (among other things like hosting the source code was not a copywrite violation deal as the code it's self was speech.
Now I don't know what all might have impacted or changed that train of thought legally since then (DMCA? Etc), but at least at one point it was side to be speech.

Comment Re:Planning (Score 4, Informative) 120

From things I've read and put together:

Europe is using 3.4 to 3.8 GHz
US is using 3.7 to 3.98 GHz

The radio altimeters use 4.2 to 4.4 GHz

So the spacing in Europe is 400 MHz, which is fine, but in the US it's 220 MHz

The other thing is, apparently, the US radio/antenna setups are up to 2 times as powerful as those used in Europe and the antenna are installed in vertical positions in the US vs they're tilted away from any finals/flight paths in Europe.

So it's not an apples-to-apples comparison when someone says "well Europe did it, so it's all fine!"

On top of that, the AT&T spokesperson quote of "We are frustrated by the FAA's inability to do what nearly 40 countries have done, which is to safely deploy 5G technology without disrupting aviation services, and we urge it do so in a timely manner" (Megan Ketterer, an AT&T spokesperson)
What? The FAA isn't deploying 5G, the wireless carriers are with the backing of the FCC. If anything, you should be asking why your own companies (and by extension the FCC) cant' deploy 5G without interrupting aviation services. I've seen reports where the concerns from the FAA were forwarded to the FCC for quite a while now, but...

Comment Shows how out of touch Google is... (Score 1) 49

Personally I'd rather just use the web browser, not an app except for certain cases.
Apps continue to run in the background, eat away at your battery and data, and a lot are just a wrapper around a browser anyhow.

It's funny how the desktop went from apps to all browser based interfaces, yet Google is all "PEOPLE WANT APPS ON MOBILE!".... More like Google most likely found it can collect more data with an app vs folks using the web browser...

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