Category: 5G
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Facebook Wants to Build City Wide Gigabit Wi-Fi Networks
Recently all the talk has been about 5G home internet rolling out later this year from Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T. Others like Charter, Dish, Google, and more all have their own 5G networks in development. Now Facebook has announced they also want to get into the home internet business but they want to use W-Fi.…
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FOX Teams Up With AT&T to Test 4K Streaming Over 5G
5G has been a dream of cord cutters for years, and the idea of true competition coming to the home internet market is now looking like a reality. In their effort to roll out 5G home internet later this year, AT&T has teamed up with FOX to test 4K streaming over 5G. During this test,…
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AT&T Plans to Double LTE Speeds in 500 Markets This Year
Yesterday AT&T announced plans to double their LTE speeds in 500 markets thanks to their investment in FirstNet. FirstNet is the wireless network used by first responders and AT&T is upgrading their system in response to their FirstNet contract. AT&T will be physically upgrading towers in over 500 markets. “We have to climb every cell…
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Affordable 100 Mbps Down Fixed Wireless Internet Is Coming to Rural America
For years millions of rural Americans have dreamed of having fast, affordable internet options. Now with fixed wireless services, their dream is slowly becoming a reality. One of the companies rolling out fixed wireless is Windstream. Windstream is offering 25 Mbps down for $50 a month or 100 Mbps down for $70 a month. The…
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Net Neutrality Rules End June 11th
Back on December 14th, 2017 the FCC voted to end the so-called Net Neutrality rules. The vote was 3-2 party-line vote by the Federal Communications Commission to repeal the controversial utility-like oversight of internet service providers that was put in place by Democrats in 2015. “The internet is the greatest free-market innovation in history,” Ajit Pai, the Republican who took over…
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Live News Is Now FREE on The Roku Channel
Back in April Roku announced plans to bring free live news from services like ABC News, Cheddar, and Newsy to The Roku Channel for free. Now as the 8.1 Roku update starts to roll out Roku has turned on their new free news service. “We built The Roku Channel so it’s easy to navigate, offers…
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DIRECTV NOW Is Reportedly Allowing Access to Out-of-Market Locals
Have you ever traveled and suddenly found your favorite live TV streaming service no longer has your locals? Historically most live TV streaming services remove locals when you travel outside of your home market. That has started to change as services like PlayStation Vue, Hulu, and YouTube TV now allow you to access the locals…
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Why Is 5G Taking So Long? We Take a Look at Why Korea & China Are So Far Ahead of the US
5G internet is quickly rolling out in Korea and China but even with great excitement here in the States it is taking a lot of time. This week the Brooklyn 5G Summit took place and Tech Crunch had an interesting talk with some of the attendees. According to Tech Crunch one attendee said, “It takes…
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The FCC Approves Samsung’s New 5G Home Router
This week the FCC approved Samsung’s 5G home router in time for Verizon’s 5G launch later this year. Earlier this year Samsung and Verizon announced a collaboration to offer an end to end 5G solution—from the tower to indoor routers. This is a major step closer to the official Verizon 5G service launch. Earlier this…
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Verizon’s Live TV Streaming Service Will Launch Along Side 5G Later This year
This week Verizon held their 1st quarter 2018 earnings call and gave new details about their 5G and live TV streaming plans. According to Verizon, they plan to have 5G launched in three to five markets by the end of 2018. From there Verizon plans to expand their roll out in 2019. “All of those markets…