Video: Who are the players in the battle over 5G and why do we care?
In the building of a railway the first thing is to make the surveys and locate the position of the intended road upon the ground, and to make maps and sections of it, so that the land may be bought and the estimates of cost be ascertained. The engineer's first duty is to make a survey by eye without the aid of instruments. This is called the "reconnoissance." By this he lays down the general position of the line, and where he wants it to go if possible. Great skill, the result of long experience, or equally great ignorance may be shown here.- Thomas Curtis Clarke, The Building of a Railway, 1889
Two equally, critically important events in the evolution of wireless communications technology took during the third week of May 2018, at or around the same point on the globe. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project[1] (3GPP), a consortium of the world's principal telecommunications equipment and service providers, met in South Korea[2] to formalize the final standards documents for 5th Generation wireless (5G). From this point forward, these member organizations will at least pretend that the technical disputes regarding the content of 5G standards,[3] have been settled.
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The second was the US President's hair-trigger cancellation of the Singapore summit[7] bringing together the leaders of North Korea and America, presumably to discuss