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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by cesarb on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:26PM (#20788431)
> Right now your phone has a sim-card. [...] But there is not one in your TV or the lights in your bathroom. But at some point telecommunications technology is going to be so cheap that drawing a wire to connect a button to a light is going to be the expensive option.

You don't need a SIM card or 5G for that. Technologies like 802.15.4, or even simpler, are more than enough.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by liability on Saturday August 24, 2019 @03:00PM (#20789022)
Ethernet over Powerline LANs could also theoretically be used for those applications, since your TV, lightbulbs, etc will be running off mains power anyway.
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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by labawi on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:23PM (#20804363)
Please don't use powerline broadband noise sources.
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