The Trouble with 5G

Re:The Trouble with 5G by FollowingTheDao on Sunday September 04, 2022 @10:55PM (#32720009)

If what you’re saying is true then my meter should not be picking up any signals above 4 GHz correct?

So why is my meter picking up signals up to 40 GHz from the towers in my small tourist town?

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Re:The Trouble with 5G by adgjlsfhk1 on Monday September 05, 2022 @12:14AM (#32720431)

that spectrum isn't for phones. https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/2003-alloch... will let you know how the spectrum is allocated.

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Re:The Trouble with 5G by logical_person on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:51AM (#32721303)

except the diagram shows several mobile blocks right above 40ghz, so what do you mean?

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Re:The Trouble with 5G by ac29 on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:44AM (#32725607)

"Mobile" frequency allocations dont necessarily mean mobile phones. It just refers to an allocation for devices that arent transmitting from a fixed position.

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Re:The Trouble with 5G by FollowingTheDao on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:39AM (#32724814)

I said "up to".

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Re:The Trouble with 5G by gruturo on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:19AM (#32721780)

Probably a tower-to-tower link? It's sometimes cheaper to use a radio link rather than bringing cables to a new tower location. Or sometimes as a resilience measure.

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