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Apple's Work on 6G Connectivity Already Expanding
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5G is being deployed slowly and in the beginning it's not allocated a lot. Any network depends upon what channels/frequency bands are available. In many areas you get just one mid-range channel on 5G and 2-4 channels on 4G, often lower frequency ones so with higher range+penetration, so ofcourse 4G have overall more capacity, range, etc. They can't switch most channels over immediately because most people don't have 5G phones.
It will take time. Once a broader mix of shorter-range high bandwidth channels and longer range channels are switched to 5G it'll be 4G that looks bad.
Steal patents from Chinese companies as they can’t complain will be the only way to “advance”. The standard have been proposed but since they come mainly from certain Chinese company we don’t trust their engineering and we better steal their IP and claim that “they stole it first” of “they are evil, hence we must use their tech and claim it ours”.
This is as much a defensive move by Apple to be able to create some 6G patents that will enable Apple to have a better negotiating position when they inevitably have to put Qualcomm 6G modems in their devices in the future.
Guessing this is what happened and trying to route around Qual's patents on 5G was not working well (since obviously Qual created those patents specifically so you couldn't work around them).
This is their chance to get their own path (patent wise) to do 6G, so this is their chance. Still very much a unknown how doable this will be.
6G Will Be 100 Times Faster Than 5G—and Now There’s a Chip for It
The 6G chip can transmit waves at more than three times the frequency of 5G: one terahertz, or a trillion cycles per second.
singularityhub.com
Concerning Terahertz in relation to the boosts about 100 times the speed with 6G
The Truth About Terahertz
Anyone hoping to exploit this promising region of the electromagnetic spectrum must confront its very daunting physics
spectrum.ieee.org
Spiderwebs indeed could interfere with 6G.
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No, some people say they have WiFi issues on iOS 17. He followed up saying it might be an issue with tri band access points, which makes sense why I'm not having issues because I have dual band.
We called it! The report of Apple "cancelling the 5G modem" was missing the bigger picture. Apple is just focusing on the next-generation version instead. Smart move!
It depends on one's location and one's cellular carrier.
In the northern Northeast US, one is lucky to get LTE/4G as 5G is still slowly rolling out. There are pockets of 5G in 'major' areas (i.e. cities) but there are still lots of blackout spots outside of the cities towards the suburbs and urban areas.
In the northern Northeast US, one is lucky to get LTE/4G as 5G is still slowly rolling out. There are pockets of 5G in 'major' areas (i.e. cities) but there are still lots of blackout spots outside of the cities towards the suburbs and urban areas.
Spiderwebs indeed could interfere with 6G.
The RF engineers are going to encounter a lot of surprises. Back in the 2G days, one issue in the southeast US was that pine needles become resonant around 800 MHz.
Fully. So, why push for new tech that won't work anyway?
Don't need faster than advertised speed today. Need advertised speed.
Who didn't?
That delivered better efficiency, longer battery life, lighter devices, etc. Yes, the higher performance was maybe wasted on most people, but that's fine - they got everything else which is what they really wanted. And it lead to cheaper Macs, too.
Sorry if I have a hard time getting all hyped up over the next G-whatever cell technology.
I'm in the Philly metro area and I still can't get VZW's 5gUW offering at my house.
At my desk at work, I can barely make a phone call. let a lone watch a You Tube video or stream music.
Not buying the hype.
I'm in the Philly metro area and I still can't get VZW's 5gUW offering at my house.
At my desk at work, I can barely make a phone call. let a lone watch a You Tube video or stream music.
Not buying the hype.
Why not?
T-Mobile + SpaceX is delivering worldwide coverage via Starlink. They should focus on improvements that make that kind of tech more possible. I'm not a radio engineer, so IDK the details of what it'd look like, but I assume that optimizing a cellular radio to talk with a fixed tower probably looks different from how you'd do it if you knew that the other end was in Low Earth Orbit.
I live in the Boston Metrowest suburbs in a small town. On T-Mobile I get 600-800 mbps all the time. Not sometimes, but always on 5G UC. It's so good, I replaced my cable modem with a T-Mobile 5G access point for a flat $50/month. It works great. I get nearly gigabit speeds for a fraction of the cost of Verizon or Xfinity.
Wow. Sounds like I’m getting ripped off. Verizon is charging me about 80 bucks for 5G unlimited.
which provider do you have ? i have AT&T and i hardly get 5G speeds on 15PM. also it fluctuates drastically and is hardly ever consistent in connection
Just to be clear, the $50/month is for wireless home internet. I pay additional cost for my T-Mobile cell phone. No such thing as a free lunch.