What 5G means for you
- Aparna Alluri for Market Place March 2nd, 2015
- Source: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/what-5g-means-you
The Mobile World Congress begins Monday in Barcelona, Spain. The agenda for the first day: 5G.
It’s still an emerging technology, but it’s got everyone excited because of what it promises. You can download movies in seconds, play your GIFs in milliseconds, and power the Internet of Things.
Even the FCC is excited: they announced late last year they they want to plan for 5G cellular networks.
“This is one of the most exciting things, in my mind, that the FCC has done in a while,” says Ted Rappaport, director of NYU WIRELESS, and a professor at New York University's polytechnic school of engineering. “They have issued a notice of inquiry about how we could we use a vast new spectrum resource that has never been used before for mobile.”
