Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
by tboyd47 on Monday October 21, 2019 @01:48PM
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It's not a solution looking for a problem. The problem is that the existing infrastructure does not support network slicing. Without network slicing the telcos are severely limited in their pricing models. "5G" is just them trying to convince consumers that this is for their benefit.
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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
by acqq on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:26PM
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Thanks! Just reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G_network_slicing#Key_concept...
"The "one-size-fits-all" network paradigm employed in the past mobile networks (2G, 3G and 4G) is no longer suited to efficiently address a market model composed by very different applications like machine-type communication, ultra reliable low latency communication and enhanced mobile broadband content delivery.[2][11]"
"to address a market model" in the sentence seems to support your claim.
Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
by Gnarl on Monday October 21, 2019 @03:07PM
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True! Right now telcos loathe being locked in as fixed-price dumb bit-pipes for the content providers, the netflix'es, facebooks & amazon's, who are making all the money.
Thus: 5G.
Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
by leereeves on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:05AM
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It's competition and regulation, not technology, that prevents telcos from charging as much as they'd like. How will network slicing change that?
Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
by mac01021 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @06:47AM
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How will 5g fix this for them?
Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
by bogomipz on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:33AM
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>"The problem is that the existing infrastructure does not support network slicing"
What does "network slicing" mean here? I'm not familiar with this term.