<story><title>5G Just Got Weird</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/standards/5g-release-16</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>As I’ve learned more and more about 5G (which is a nebulous term, really, but what I mean specifically is the planned upcoming releases of LTE 16 and 17, as well as the features of LTE 14 and 15 that users have yet to take advantage of) I’ve become convinced that it’s going to transform how so much of the world is designed.&lt;p&gt;5G technologies allow for more devices to send more data using less power. This is achieved using a huge variety of new technologies. For instance, with beamforming, the tower sends a directional signal to your phone based on its location instead of broadcasting an omnidirectional signal. This uses less power and supports for more users.&lt;p&gt;What consumers see is much higher data rates for the same price, which doesn’t seem that important.  But on the industrial side, there will be offerings that allow for low data rate, low power applications at cheaper and cheaper prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&amp;gt; But on the industrial side, there will be offerings that allow for low data rate, low power applications at cheaper and cheaper prices.&lt;p&gt;oh great, now my appliances can phone home even without connecting to a wifi network.</text></comment>
<story><title>5G Just Got Weird</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/standards/5g-release-16</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>As I’ve learned more and more about 5G (which is a nebulous term, really, but what I mean specifically is the planned upcoming releases of LTE 16 and 17, as well as the features of LTE 14 and 15 that users have yet to take advantage of) I’ve become convinced that it’s going to transform how so much of the world is designed.&lt;p&gt;5G technologies allow for more devices to send more data using less power. This is achieved using a huge variety of new technologies. For instance, with beamforming, the tower sends a directional signal to your phone based on its location instead of broadcasting an omnidirectional signal. This uses less power and supports for more users.&lt;p&gt;What consumers see is much higher data rates for the same price, which doesn’t seem that important.  But on the industrial side, there will be offerings that allow for low data rate, low power applications at cheaper and cheaper prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nfriedly</author><text>&amp;gt; What consumers see is much higher data rates for the same price, which doesn’t seem that important.&lt;p&gt;I think this is in part due to data caps. Nobody takes advantage of the speed, because that could mean burning an entire month&amp;#x27;s worth of data in 10 minutes.</text></comment>