
Never mind 5G, researchers have found something much faster
10 times faster than 5G
Japanese boffins have developed a terahertz (THz) transmitter capable of transmitting digital data at a rate 10 times or more faster than that offered by the fifth-generation mobile networks (5G).

5G will be a worldwide game changer
Qualcomm issues a report on the coming mobile technology
The maker of chips, Qualcomm, has issued a new report which identifies 5G as a significant technology worldwide game changer.

Intel is covering up Qualcomm’s success
Literally uses a curtain
Last week at CES 2017 we noticed that Intel felt so unsecure about itself that it used a big curtain to hide the Qualcomm logo from the booth next door. This really happened and we were lucky to document it.

T-Mobile US on 5G in 2017
VR, AR, AI mobile speeds of 1.8 Gbps
T-Mobile US is talking a lot about network un-carrier innovations including 4G advanced features such as 4x4 MIMO, QAM 256 and QAM 64 but it looks like the company is working hard on 5G too. T-Mobile has already demonstrated mobile speeds of 1.8 Gbps and fixed speeds of 12 Gbps with latency of 2ns. Things look to be much faster and seamless in 2017 and the years to come, Happy New 2017 Year, that gets us a step closer to that.

T-Mobile preparing for 1 Gbps in 2017
4×4 MIMO and QAM 256 are the first step in the USA
Back in September, T-Mobile in the US announced that it supports 4×4 MIMO as well as QAM 256 on the download and QAM 64 on the upload side. The first phone to get this support was the Samsung Galaxy S7 and it looks like in 2017, T mobile will get you to 1Gbps class speeds or speeds up to 979 Mbps.

Pressure building for 5G to use 28GHz band as the standard
South Korea, US and Japan have agreed to back it
A row is brewing over which frequency will be used for 5G.

Windows 10 demo was on Snapdragon 821
Qualcomm president confirms multiple chipset support
Just five days ago, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 has full support for Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs and everyone jumped to the conclusion expecting that only the Snapdragon 835 and the future SoCs are supported. It turns out that the device on stage was based on Snapdragon 821 confirming that Windows 10 runs on the current generation too.

KT Telecom to launch commercial 5G in 2019
Ahead of original plans
The Snapdragon X50 is a chipset that might speed up the introduction of 5G worldwide. The 5G is going to influence us in so many ways that even the head of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has mentioned 5G EU plans and deployment by 2020.

AT&T to Buy Time Warner for $85.4 Billion
End to end solution
Some big things are happening in the US media and communication market as AT&T just agreed to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion.

5G will have multiple Gigabit upload speeds
Qualcomm CTO confirms to Fudzilla
Everyone was excited about 5G's promised 5Gbps download speed, but most have ignored the upload component. Qualcomm's CTO Matt Grob has confirmed to Fudzilla that you can expect to see multiple Gbps upload speeds.