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Is 5G TV The Next Big Thing On Your Cell Phone?
You can already watch streaming movies, shows and videos on your cell phone. But could your device soon be picking up an actual live TV station? That may happen, at least in the U.S., as the FCC agrees to allow a semi-experimental 5G TV broadcast.
"The FCC has given WWOO through January 16, 2024, to conduct testing of 5G broadcasts, which include TV signals that can be received by "smartphones, tablets, and any device (including traditional television sets) with a 5G chip that has been manufactured to permit the reception of 5G transmissions within the broadcast television band," the FCC said in granting the authority."
FCC OKs Test of Low-Power 5G Broadcasts
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Bell and Rogers will never ever do this.
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It has been tested in Germany at relatively high power. In simple terms it amounts to IP multicasting, and you need an appropriate amount of bandwidth. But it won't happen here simply because the 5G spectrum has been auctioned off to the wireless carriers, and those that are already in broadcasting (Bell and Rogers) aren't going to eat their own lunch.
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From a user experience POV, there really wouldn't be much of a difference between this and streaming live. Theoretically you'd save on your data plan, but as mentioned the powers that be here will never let that happen.
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5G is two things
1) a type of modulation that permits a higher level of digital transmission than 3G or 4G
2) new frequency bands to deploy 5G (existing bands are already full with older 3G/4G and 5G uses a wider bandwidth)
Users expect ubiquitous, seamless, wide-area coverage. A local broadcaster can't do that with their "single stick" transmission. Only national or regional "cellular" guys can do this.
I agree with Stinand and Tomas Barlow. This is "another great" idea that's DOA.
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In Phase wrote:
A local broadcaster can't do that with their "single stick" transmission. Only national or regional "cellular" guys can do this.
Serious question: Say you're in a country where, just theoretically, those are the same guys. Possible? I know it would make no business sense, but technically possible?
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A local broadcaster can't do that with their "single stick" transmission. Only national or regional "cellular" guys can do this.
Serious question: Say you're in a country where, just theoretically, those are the same guys. Possible? I know it would make no business sense, but technically possible?
Good question. Yes, it is certainly possible.
But you are right, it makes no business sense.
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Mobil phones will be a small segment of 5G usage. Most of it will be for a variety of non-phone applications existing and in the pipeline including autonomous driving, IoT (Internet of Things), Healthcare (remote procedures) and others listed in this article: Applications of 5G technology.