5g the latest and greatest mobile network and its motivational values

let’s talk about 5g the latest and greatest mobile network that they say is going to transform our lives it sounds promising 5g will let us download an HD movie in seconds that’s just hilariously fast doctors will be able to perform remote surgery with virtually no lap time and it’ll make self-driving cars smarter and safer but there are also suspicions that five gene will expose us to more security breaches privacy issues and even health problems so what exactly is 5g and how much of the excitement or fear is just hype we all know 3G and 4G they’re the mobile networks we use to date you see them at the top of your phone and they give us access to the Internet but we’re now making way for the next generation 5g is promoted as the best and fastest connection around and in some countries it’s already available South Korea launched 5g networks last year so did providers in China the UK the US and Germany new 5g phones are on the way to Samsung released the first one in 2019 bringing commercial 5g to life before the rest so here is how it works 5g uses a wide range of radio frequencies starting from the lower end which we already use for television and Wi-Fi all the way up to what’s called millimeter waves which are extremely high frequency and used for things like radar guns and security screening at airports this means that VG can carry huge amounts of data faster and that’s a big reason why we need it our mobile networks are running out of capacity soon they won’t be able to accommodate the growing number of devices were using and there’s money to be made governments will earn revenue by granting 5g licenses the other reason to move to 5g innovation we have more sensors in the world collecting data and transmitting them back and forth in a smart intelligent hybrid way it is sort of like a Jetsons like futuristic technology my ingredients and I get recipes he’s talking about what they call the Internet of Things and what it means is more and more of our devices like smart speakers or exercise equipment will remember and even anticipate our preferences and five gene will allow them to talk to each other at a record speed it will be connecting many more devices to the Internet for the same probably amount of money and without interfering one to each other the challenge with 5g is coverage shorter wavelengths carry more information but are more easily blocked by things like trees and walls with 4G transmitters or base stations can be several kilometers apart but with 5g they need to be closer which means we need more of them one estimate suggests that us alone will have to install 1 million new towers that’s why 5g is really more of a gradual rollout not a launch because all of that back-end infrastructure will take years to build what we’re going to see as a substantive replacement or upgrade of the core systems that telecommunications companies provide that’s going to be a really massive investment the problem in some places is that big phone companies have only just finished building their 4G networks they want to both enjoy the benefits the reap the profits of my they put into it but also they recognize that well there’s this assertion that we’re in a 5g race it’s not a short-term race it’s a very long-term marathon and the race is already getting crowded some of the big names in 5g are Ericsson from Sweden Nokia and Finland and Samsung from South Korea but one company is way in the lead today it’s the world’s biggest supplier of network telecommunications equipment Huawei has been bidding for contracts around the world to set up 5g networks but the Chinese company isn’t welcome in a lot of places Australia New Zealand Taiwan and Japan have all blocked Huawei from building their 5g networks so is the u.s. the Trump administration has even put pressure on the UK Poland and Germany to stop them from working with Huawei there’s an obvious business reason for that Huawei has been crushing the competition and the Americans want in but the countries shutting kwame out say there’s more to it pull of the US and many Western nations the tech giant is a spying tool for the Chinese government Chinese law requires these firms to support and as Beijing’s vast security apparatus allegations its top executives deny they insisted Huawei’s not in the pocket of China’s government Huawei is basically accused of being a pawn in China’s state-sponsored spying and there’s an assumption that you know in terms of cyber crime in cyber war there’s like a bluff on the east that’s leaving all these attacks there’s a strong expectation at least in North America and parts of Western Europe that relations with China will become more antagonist ik not you know due to a military conflict is something that nature but on the basis of trade on foreign policy on human rights and issues like that but 5g also stirs up a lot of debate about our own individual privacy we’re facing a future where more and more of our basic household items will be connected to a 5g network that’s a lot more data being collected like what you watch on TV where your car is and whether there’s someone at home it’s information advertisers are after and it’s data that others might want to misuse and so if you are acquiring baby monitors or you’re acquiring door locks or any of the other Internet of Things things really looking at them carefully to term whether the vendor is committed to providing a secure product on an ongoing basis which brings us to another concern our health with all those extra radio waves swimming around us people are worried who not to mention getting the infant’s Qiao’s ball protest yet people aren’t gonna have a choice anymore and that’s what terrifies me the most we’ve seen this before when mobile phones first came out people were worried they might cause cancer right now there is some exposure of your your deep tissues your brain some other you know tissues that are a few centimetres past the surface of the skin but after many scientific studies the general consensus is there’s no hard evidence to support that theory but it necessarily been disproven either it’s the same with 5g and in fact some experts seem to think 5 G’s shorter wavelengths are actually less harmful than the radiation from devices we’re using now it’s just a little ironic to me that people are all worried about 5g when once you get to that millimeter wave regime all your deep tissues are quite safe it’s really only your skin this Punk you get any exposure it’s the same pattern with any new technology right there’s excitement and Wonder but also skepticism but we’re talking maybe 5 to 20 years before we really see 5g in full effect and in that time new tech is going to emerge China says it’s already working on the 16th hope that was a useful primer on 5g and Wyatt’s in the news as always aljazeera.com has the story covered so make sure to subscribe like and follow all of our social media pages to get the very latest I’ll see you 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