FCC: 5G is safe.

There are many people concerned about this, but for now, the FCC has determined it to be safe.

This may have been part of the later than expected Hololens news (recent approval from FCC)

5G would be beneficial to MVIS -- delivery of more data, at faster rates will make delivery of video and Augmented Reality Date much more efficient -- and likely cheaper over time.


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FCC Link

PDF of FCC Statement


The Federal Communications Commission has officially announced this week that 5G and the radio waves that come with it — while draped in controversy — are indeed safe for everyday use.

5G networks have only just begun hitting the market for smartphone users, and the buzz is substantial. With reported speeds as high as 1.1 Gbps, everyday users and industry experts are drooling at the potential uses for this blazing fast network. Plus, with Apple finally getting in on the action, 5G will soon become the standard for all devices.

However, many have worried that the higher frequency radio waves used for 5G could have negative health effects on citizens around the world. Luckily, according to the FCC, there's nothing to worry about.
What Did the FCC Say?

In a statement released earlier this week, the FCC outlined their plan to maintain current radio frequency exposure standards, which stated pretty matter-of-factly that 5G is not only safe, but that the regulations in place to protect you are also pretty strict.

“The FCC sets radio frequency limits in close consultation with the FDA and other health agencies. After a thorough review of the record and consultation with these agencies, we find it appropriate to maintain the existing radio frequency limits, which are among the most stringent in the world for cell phones,” 

Verizon 5G, Hololens and Treating Cancer

Thanks Fuzzie

I think this illustrates what kind of resolution we might be dealing with -- and applications.

If you aren't REALLY excited about this tech you have no imagination.

This also adds another Tier 1 company to the radar... Interesting how much Hololens gets play with a 5G commercial from a mobile carrier..... there are a few dots that haven't been connected here.

The video is very oddly locked, and I haven't been able to find it to embed it from YouTube. (It might a kind of pre-release of the video, considering it's in Adweek - or that the NBA has something to do with it.)



Adweek

5G in action

5G Is here --- and a lot of changes coming because of it.

Could make display only significantly more attractive. 

Qualcomm's current 5G modem has a theoretically max speed of 5Gbps, but of course nothing is going to hit the theoretical maximum. Carriers are happy to crow about 5G rollouts and upcoming devices, but it has been rare to see actual numbers attached to 5G. Weissmann's test is the closest we've come so far to seeing what real 5G performance is like, and today's press release from Verizon claims "early customers in Chicago and Minneapolis should expect typical download speeds of 450Mbps, with peak speeds of nearly 1Gbps, and latency less than 30 milliseconds."

Video on Twitter

Microsoft Gaming Plans

Anyone can make their own Hololens, games going platform agnostic. There's a broad and interesting strategy being implemented at Microsoft.

It will be nice to hold shares in the company that produces the best AR display.




Motley Fool

Nadella changed that by accelerating efforts to bring the best versions of all the company's products to any platform that wanted them. Ballmer should get credit for starting that process by bringing the Office apps to Android, but it was Nadella who has preached an any-device, any-customer strategy.

Project xCloud would do that for gaming, bringing the company's software (i.e., games) to people using tablets, phones, PCs, and who knows what other devices. Using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, the company hopes to make streaming gaming available on 4G and eventually 5G networks. It laid out its broad goals in a blog post Choudhry made back in October:

Scaling and building out Project xCloud is a multi-year journey for us. We'll begin public trials in 2019 so we can learn and scale with different volumes and locations. Our focus is on delivering an amazing added experience to existing Xbox players and on empowering developers to scale to hundreds of millions of new players across devices. Our goal with Project xCloud is to deliver a quality experience for all gamers on all devices that's consistent with the speed and high-fidelity gamers experience and expect on their PCs and consoles.

Transforming computing & the world as we know it.

As world maps go, a globe is a much better representation than a flat map.

But as things are -- globes are hard to come by. We don't carry them with us. In the age of computing everything was on a two-dimensional screen. Some on-screen maps are improved by making them appear three dimensional (google maps does this), but still it's something on a flat screen.

Sculpture is more interesting than painting. Even the best paintings are those that make the art appear to be in three dimensions when it's not. Where the shadows are just right so it appears to pop off the canvas.

Up until now, everything nearly everything humans used to compute and record was in two dimensions.

You could get three dimensions in say an MRI by scanning different layers -- but then a person still had to have the skill to imagine it in 3 dimensions. 

One of the things that you need to be able to do if you're an air traffic controller is look at a 2d screen and imagine a 3D world.

This will also allow computing to help everyone at every job...the computer will be truly portable and possibly with everyone much of the time.

This will be as profound as switching from handwritten books to printed books, or like the advent of radio and television -- or the arrival of the internet.

That's all about to change -- and this little company is a key to that change. Providing the near-eye displays and the scanners to make it possible. 

Just watch.

C|NET






RFI (Translated)

Forget about your over-priced foldable smartphones, 5G networks that are struggling to set up, or the connected gadgets that have been heavily advertised at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, ​​Spain. The innovation that caused a sensation at the show is HoloLens 2, the new version of the augmented reality headset developed by Microsoft researchers, allowing its user to mix reality and synthesized images in real time and in relief, in its immediate environment.

First Holographic call with 5G

Some of the other products that appear in the first video are really interesting.

The call isn't that cool, until you realize that the soccer player isn't actually there.

5G Much Sooner than Expected

Samsung Hosting 5G commercialization. 



SiliconRepublic

Samsung has already received approval from the FCC in the US for an end-to-end fixed wireless solution, which is expected to debut with Verizon in the US in the final quarter of this year.

“The 5G era is approaching much sooner than the industry initially anticipated, which was the year 2020,” said Dongsu Shin, vice-president and head of the planning group for networks business at Samsung Electronics. “We will drive the supply of 5G equipment so people across the globe can experience services generated by this new technology at the earliest opportunity.”

Verizon's First 5G installation will be in Sacramento

Getting much closer to reality for all of us.


From 5G

The fixed 5G equipent -- using Verizon's own "5GTF" specification -- will provide a wireless 1-Gbit/s connection over-the-air for homes to surf the web, stream video and make live virtual reality (VR) connections, according to Samsung.

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) says it will launch three to five fixed 5G by the end of this year. Sacramento is the only market that Big Red has announced so far. (See Verizon Says 'Up to 5' Fixed 5G Markets Will Go Live in 2H18 and Is Atlanta the Next 5G Market for Verizon?)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has now approved Samsung Corp. 's indoor 5G router. Previously, it has approved Samsung's access unit and outdoor 5G router. Samsung says this now means that its "end-to-end system" is ready for Verizon to use.

This 28GHz system will likely be the first commercial millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G system ready for use in the US. "The indoor 5G home router is a small consumer device that receives and transmits the 5G signal to provide ultra-high speed broadband wireless service," Samsung says, in a statement, this shares this 5G signal to multiple devices via WiFi. (See Samsung Supplying 5G for Verizon's First Market and Verizon's Fixed 5G: Are You Ready for the Wireless Gig Rush?)

5G Ahead of Schedule

VentureBeat
With Verizon’s promised 5G launch date rapidly approaching, CFO Matthew Ellis confirmed this morning that the carrier is “full steam ahead” on its 5G deployment plans for the second half of 2018, saying that the company’s network is being readied to launch as soon as 5G customer equipment is ready. On a quarterly conference call with investors, Ellis said Verizon already has the necessary assets in place for the launch and is largely focused on developing compelling services to win customers.

Despite jockeying by other carriers in China, South Korea, and the United States, it appears increasingly likely that Verizon will indeed be the world’s first carrier to launch commercial 5G services — albeit with several previously announced caveats. “The launch this year will be on our proprietary standard,” said Ellis, who reaffirmed that Verizon will start in three to five markets and will focus on in-home broadband rather than mobile devices. “Over time, we want to move to standards-based consumer premises equipment.”

Broadcom Buyout offer

And so far, the smart people I know are voting no.

As a major electronics company in mobile, and a driver of 5G, This deserves to be watched.


Shares of Qualcomm Inc. QCOM, +0.56% surged 4.4% in premarket trade Monday, after Broadcom Ltd. AVGO, -1.56% boosted its bid to buy the semiconductor maker by 17% to its "best and final offer" of $82 a share. The bid consists of $60 a share in cash and the rest in Broadcom stock. Reuters had reported on Sunday that an increased bid was planned.

Marketwatch

NewYorkTimes

“Given well-known U.S. national security concerns about Huawei and other Chinese telecommunications companies, a shift to Chinese dominance in 5G would have substantial negative national security consequences for the United States,” a CFIUS official wrote in a March 5 letter to the companies’ lawyers that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Broadcom appeared to be laying the groundwork to get ahead of potential national-security concerns even before it launched its initial bid for Qualcomm. In a televised appearance last November with President Donald Trump at the White House, Broadcom’s Mr. Tan announced plans to redomicile his Singapore-based company to the U.S., a move that could have rendered CFIUS review inapplicable. Mr. Trump lavished praise on Mr. Tan, calling him “a great, great executive” and saying Broadcom was “one of the really great, great companies.”

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Days later, Mr. Tan launched an unsolicited $105 billion bid for Qualcomm. Broadcom raised that to more than $120 billion at one point, then cut it back again to the current $117 billion offer after Qualcomm raised its separate bid for European giant NXP Semiconductors NV.

The 5G Future

I've never been more optimistic. 

Qualcomm

5G will do more than turbocharge our smartphones (though, it’ll certainly do that), it’ll enable the creation of whole new industries, have an economic impact measured in trillions*, and lay the foundation for technologies we’re only beginning to think about.

Far from a speculative vision of the future, the first mobile 5G NR trials will begin in just a few months, paving the way to commercial availability in 2019. Our Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G Modem, which was used to demonstrate the world’s first 5G data connection, is helping make that happen. And we’re working with leading OEMs around the world to develop Snapdragon X50-powered smartphones, mobile hotspots, Always Connected PCs, and immersive head-mounted VR displays in time for 5G’s arrival.

As we work to help build the global 5G infrastructure, we continue to evolve LTE. A pivotal part of this effort will be the just-announced Qualcomm Snapdragon X24LTE modem, which makes its public debut at MWC. Snapdragon X24 is our third-generation Gigabit LTE modem that can deliver lightning-fast download speeds up to 2 Gbps. Snapdragon X24 and other Gigabit LTE modems will help ensure a smooth transition into 5G by complementing Snapdragon X50 to provide multimode 4G/5G capability on the same device.

5G

Qualcomm - Wired

One, Two, Three Four Five

Sometime in the next two or three years, if all goes to plan, Qualcomm will play a leading role in building the world a new wireless network. LTE and 4G will be replaced by 5G, a new system that uses the super-high-frequency millimeter-wave spectrum to send way more data, way more quickly. "It's faster than what's in your home, faster than what's at work," says Sherif Hanna, Qualcomm's director of product marketing. You'll be able to download movies in a few seconds, or stream high-res VR content. Internet speeds will effectively stop being an issue.

5G

Washington State Working on 5G Infrastructure

Implementation of 5G will be a boon to the use of mobile video. Make it much easier, cheaper, and more common. Of course, larger screens will be really good news for the consumption of mobile data.


KIRO7 News  -- Video at the Source

As the wireless industry is preparing to move to faster internet in the next few years, Washington State is facing a variety of problems.

State senator and chairman of the state Senate Energy, Environment & Telecommunications Committee, Doug Ericksen, will introduce a bill to address those problems -- including safety, costs and permitting -- that would move the state from 4G to 5G, according to GeekWire.

The committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 5711 Wednesday and passed it.

 5G is the fifth generation of wireless phones and technology that promises to speed downloads by up to 10 gigabits per second, which would be enough to download a full HD movie in “a matter of seconds,”according to Gizmodo.com.

Nationally, 5G is expected to appear between 2018 and 2020. About 30 states are deciding whether to introduce legislation on upgrading to 5G.

A key to a 5G system would be “small cells” which are basically wireless transmitters, that would most likely be mounted on power and telephone poles.

That causes some problems. First, lots of equipment would be clustered together on a power pole, many utility lines are underground -- meaning no poles are available to mount the small cells -- and permits need to be obtained.

Victoria London, representing the Association of Washington Cities, told GeekWire that Spokane, Kirkland, Kenmore and Sammamish have already updated their local laws to deal with upgrading to a 5G system.

5G

One of the "ecosystem" technologies to watch is 5G.

How exactly it will appear remains to be determined, but it's sufficient to say that it will make wireless data a LOT faster, and probably a lot cheaper -- making streaming and downloading video content a lot more convenient and affordable.

PCMag  (Much more at the source)

AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and other carriers will start to launch 5G networks next year. But what exactly is 5G? Here's what we know so far.

5G Will Enable Mobile AR/VR

So…what about phones? The biggest change 5G may bring is in virtual and augmented reality. As phones transform into devices meant to be used with VR headsets, the very low latency and consistent speeds of 5G will give you an Internet-augmented world, if and when you want it. Sprint recently demonstrated streaming wireless VR at the Copa America soccer tournament. The small cell aspects of 5G may also help with in-building coverage, as 5G encourages every home router to become a cell site.

FCC Approves 5G - Phones to get 5 times faster

Which will be really good for viewing video with your PicoP

Seattle Times (more at the source)

“These are huge blocks of spectrum that will deliver amazing applications to Americans,” said Meredith Attwell Baker, president of CTIA, a trade group for wireless companies, including the top four U.S. carriers, AT&T, Verizon Communications, Sprint and Bellevue-based T-Mobile US. “This is a critical first step to ensure the U.S. is in a position to lead the world in 5G.”

All four top U.S. mobile carriers have announced plans to test 5G technology, with partners including Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics. Connections are projected to double by 2020 and reach 500 billion a decade later as more mobile devices, robots, light sensors and drones all become part of the so-called internet of things.

“We’re talking about superfast data rates, super-low latency: the kind of wireless anyone would want that’s only a dream today,” said Dean Brenner, senior vice president for government affairs at Qualcomm. The chipmaker joined with Intel, Verizon, Samsung, Nokia and Ericsson to ask the FCC to allow higher power for base stations than the agency initially proposed.

5G Sooner than expected

This is way sooner than I expected for 5G -- 5G protocol will change the world as far as streaming portable video --- it will be fast enough and cheap enough that there will be nothing in the way.

Highly beneficial to Microvision.

DigiTimes

MediaTek is looking to debut the first generation of its 5G chip solutions as early as 2018. The Taiwan-based IC design house has expanded an R&D team engaged in the development of 5G solutions to more than 100 people, according to sources familiar with the matter.

In addition, MediaTek is working closely with Europe- and Japan-based mobile operators such as NTT DoCoMo to jointly develop and conduct trials of their 5G wireless technologies, the sources said.

Earlier in 2016, MediaTek and NTT DoCoMo have jointly announced their partnership for 5G technology development and trials.

Rival Spreadtrum Communications is also looking to launch experimental 5G chips in 2018, according to industry sources. Spreadtrum is expected to partner with major China-based mobile operators to develop and conduct trials of 5G technology as China aims to improve its self-sufficiency in the semiconductor space.

The general consensus is that 5G networks will be commercialized in 2020.

Ecosystem on Steroids Verizon 5G

C|Net Verizon 5G

The nation's largest wireless carrier will begin field trials on so-called fifth-generation, or 5G, technology within the next 12 months, Roger Gurnani, chief information and technology architect for Verizon, said in an interview last week. He expects "some level of commercial deployment" to begin by 2017. That's far earlier than the time frame of 2020 that many in the industry have pegged for the initial adoption of 5G technology.

So, what would that mean for PicoP?

How fast is 5G? Verizon's tests have shown a connection speed that is 30 to 50 times faster than our current 4G network, or higher speeds than what Google Fiber offers through a direct physical connection into the home, Gurnani said.

With 5G, that copy of the movie "The Guardians of the Galaxy" would zip to your device in 15 seconds instead of 6 minutes via 4G.

Combine this with Go90. MicroVision WINS.

XFINITY WIFI

We are going to be viewing a lot more content on our portable devices. PicoP will make it possible, and much more desirable. Access to the content through mobile networks will be difficult until 5G becomes widely available. (Here's a reminder about 5G capabilities)

XFINITY has a great solution for fast data connections able to keep us in content. These are FREE WIFI connections if you're already an Xfinity customer, or you can pay them a monthly fee.

Wherever there is an Xfinity Customer with WIFI -- you'll have WIFI access as well!

Interactive WIFI Map

The Ecosystem is ready for PicoP -- right out of the gate, and that is a rare and beautiful thing for a new kind of technology.

Facebook & Quickfire -- Ecosystem improvement

The more video that can be delivered to consumers, the more easily, with less bandwidth, the better. Until 5G protocol becomes common, this is the next best thing. 


AlleyWatch

What is QuickFire?

The social networking mogul Facebook took over the video startup QuickFire. The acquisition was officially announced on the QuickFire website. 

In the words of Craig Y. Lee, QuickFire CEO, “QuickFire Networks was founded on the premise that the current network infrastructure is not sufficient to support the massive consumption of online video without compromising video quality. QuickFire Networks solves this capacity problem via proprietary technology that dramatically reduces the bandwidth needed to view video online without degrading video quality.”

...the announcement comes days after Facebook declared that they average more than one billion video views every day. Video is now an essential part of the Facebook experience. Think about the #IceBucketChallenge, a viral campaign that saw 2.4 million related videos on Facebook. There is a lot of power behind such explosive campaigns that take over the online community and Zuckerberg’s team is ready to make the most of it.

MWC Day 1

Not the day we wanted to have, but actually interesting anyway.

Two things that improve the ecosystem for PicoP are the most interesting things. 

And some competition that Celluon with PicoP has already outclassed.

5G

5G at CNet

Reasons to be eager for 5G

Expect plenty of benefits from the next-gen network.

• New realities: 5G will push augmented reality and virtual reality into the mainstream. Augmented reality overlays information like walking directions, product prices or acquaintances' names over our view of the real world by, for example, projecting data onto a car windshield. Virtual reality creates an entirely artificial view. Both need to pull in new data almost instantly.
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• Instant gratification: Download speeds should increase from today's 4G peak of 150 megabits per second to at least 10 gigabits per second. That's fast enough to download "Guardians of the Galaxy" in 4 seconds instead of 6 minutes.
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• Lightning-fast response: In addition to cramming more bits into every second, 5G will shorten the lag time before the first bits show up. Waiting a few seconds for a streaming video to start over 4G is no big deal, but that's unacceptably slow for things like self-driving cars, where every millisecond counts. 4G ideally needs 15 to 25 milliseconds for one car to tell another behind it that it's begun emergency braking. That delay will drop to 1 millisecond with 5G."

5G wireless protocol is FAST. So fast you probably won't care about speed again for a long, long time. Download a Blue-ray Quality disk in 10 seconds fast. Download a 4K movie in 40 seconds fast. That's fast. Getting video to your mobile device that has PicoP will NOT be a problem when this rolls around.

5G Article at Fierce Wireless

SANDISK 200GB MicroSD Card

From theVerge

More memory than most Laptops. Will be able to hold four or more HD movies on a portable device.






Lenovo Pocket Projector

From Android Authority

Already obsolete next to the Celluon PicoAir & PicoP.