<story><title>U.S. FAA clears 45% of commercial plane fleet after 5G deployed</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-faa-oks-45-commercial-airplane-fleet-operations-after-5g-deployment-2022-01-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just about what exists today, but what we want to be able to do in the future.&lt;p&gt;First, there are situations where it&amp;#x27;s hard to get &amp;quot;awesome LTE&amp;quot; because there&amp;#x27;s a lot of usage. Getting more bandwidth is important to handle situations like that.&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, we don&amp;#x27;t know what the future will offer if we build greater capacity. When Apple launched the iPhone, we didn&amp;#x27;t know that we&amp;#x27;d be changing the way we live our lives. Things like TikTok wouldn&amp;#x27;t exist without the abundant bandwidth offered by LTE. We don&amp;#x27;t always know what greater bandwidth and capacity will offer.&lt;p&gt;We are seeing some things already. We&amp;#x27;re seeing wireless home internet become available to a lot of people. For cell carriers, this is a new stream of revenue. For customers, this can be increase home broadband competition and for many rural customers the first chance at broadband.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re seeing things like Nvidia&amp;#x27;s GeForce NOW allow you to play games that are being run on the cloud rather than your local device. Lower latency and greater bandwidth&amp;#x2F;capacity means a better experience. Nvidia recommends 50Mbps which LTE &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; do, but won&amp;#x27;t have as much capacity to support as many simultaneous users. 5G will also drive down latencies which are important for gaming.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s possible that self-driving technology might take advantage of this in the future. I&amp;#x27;m not someone that promotes self-driving tech, but one can see how lower latency and higher bandwidth&amp;#x2F;capacity could mean being able to send more data to the cloud both for computation and also for storage&amp;#x2F;learning.&lt;p&gt;A lot of people are talking about VR and meta-verses. Again, I&amp;#x27;m not necessarily buying into this yet, but it seems like greater bandwidth and lower latency could make things better.&lt;p&gt;Heck, even video-conferencing on mobile can benefit from more bandwidth and lower latency. While LTE can accommodate it, there are times when networks get congested and less congestion is a good thing. Lower latency also offers a better experience.&lt;p&gt;Do you need it? No. But you don&amp;#x27;t need a smartphone. At the same time, it&amp;#x27;s possible that someone will create something that you won&amp;#x27;t know how you lived without that&amp;#x27;s made possible by more bandwidth&amp;#x2F;capacity and lower latency.</text></item><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>Has anyone ever had awesome lte and said “I need more bandwidth” on their phone?  Idk I just don’t see the need for 5g but I’m definitely not a phone power user.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fomine3</author><text>Totally agree. Should consumers get costly highend phones in 2020-2021 with degraded battery life due to 5G is different story, but maybe we should be sacrificed to build futureproof 5G infra by buying phones with unnecessary 5G.&lt;p&gt;3G(HSPA) to 4G(LTE) was huge. I happily upgraded.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. FAA clears 45% of commercial plane fleet after 5G deployed</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-faa-oks-45-commercial-airplane-fleet-operations-after-5g-deployment-2022-01-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just about what exists today, but what we want to be able to do in the future.&lt;p&gt;First, there are situations where it&amp;#x27;s hard to get &amp;quot;awesome LTE&amp;quot; because there&amp;#x27;s a lot of usage. Getting more bandwidth is important to handle situations like that.&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, we don&amp;#x27;t know what the future will offer if we build greater capacity. When Apple launched the iPhone, we didn&amp;#x27;t know that we&amp;#x27;d be changing the way we live our lives. Things like TikTok wouldn&amp;#x27;t exist without the abundant bandwidth offered by LTE. We don&amp;#x27;t always know what greater bandwidth and capacity will offer.&lt;p&gt;We are seeing some things already. We&amp;#x27;re seeing wireless home internet become available to a lot of people. For cell carriers, this is a new stream of revenue. For customers, this can be increase home broadband competition and for many rural customers the first chance at broadband.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re seeing things like Nvidia&amp;#x27;s GeForce NOW allow you to play games that are being run on the cloud rather than your local device. Lower latency and greater bandwidth&amp;#x2F;capacity means a better experience. Nvidia recommends 50Mbps which LTE &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; do, but won&amp;#x27;t have as much capacity to support as many simultaneous users. 5G will also drive down latencies which are important for gaming.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s possible that self-driving technology might take advantage of this in the future. I&amp;#x27;m not someone that promotes self-driving tech, but one can see how lower latency and higher bandwidth&amp;#x2F;capacity could mean being able to send more data to the cloud both for computation and also for storage&amp;#x2F;learning.&lt;p&gt;A lot of people are talking about VR and meta-verses. Again, I&amp;#x27;m not necessarily buying into this yet, but it seems like greater bandwidth and lower latency could make things better.&lt;p&gt;Heck, even video-conferencing on mobile can benefit from more bandwidth and lower latency. While LTE can accommodate it, there are times when networks get congested and less congestion is a good thing. Lower latency also offers a better experience.&lt;p&gt;Do you need it? No. But you don&amp;#x27;t need a smartphone. At the same time, it&amp;#x27;s possible that someone will create something that you won&amp;#x27;t know how you lived without that&amp;#x27;s made possible by more bandwidth&amp;#x2F;capacity and lower latency.</text></item><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>Has anyone ever had awesome lte and said “I need more bandwidth” on their phone?  Idk I just don’t see the need for 5g but I’m definitely not a phone power user.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JCharante</author><text>&amp;gt; Lower latency and greater bandwidth&amp;#x2F;capacity means a better experience.&lt;p&gt;True but isn&amp;#x27;t wifi already lower latency and greater bandwidth? What things can we do on wifi that we can&amp;#x27;t on mobile data?</text></comment>