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The big deal about Hauwai, as far as I can tell, is they were the first with 5G.
You might be thinking "what's the big deal about 5G?" - NOTHING for the consumer. You can download a film faster now, but you already have real time playback. But what's in it for the service provider?
When you are on the network receiving data, you are the ONLY person in the cell receiving the data. Cells are geographical locations connected to a single transmitting/receiver tower. When you are accessing that antenna, you're the ONLY person in the entire area accessing it although you might be sharing it with 100 other people at the same time, even 1000 other people. Cells CAN overlap, but you can ignore that, mostly they don't except on the fringes.
You are on what is called TDMA - Time Division Multiplex Addressing. You get a slot where you have permission to send or receive data, and when you get this slot, you're the only one that does. When you're transmitting a little piece of data, NOBODY else is, that's true for voice or anything. When you are "talking on your phone" you're actually having your voice recorded for a short period of time, having that digitized and compressed and then that data is sent - there's a delay between the time you say something and by the time the person you're talking to hears it, but it's so short they rarely notice it.
Now what if you increase the speed of transmission so it's 10x the old speed? Well you can have 10 x the number of people using the same cell, or you can reduce the number of cells to 1/10th the size. This reduces maintenance costs and upkeep, and increases profit.
The "problem" is the Huawei came up with a workable stable solution for 5G first so some bullshit had to be made up to keep them out of the market. It has nothing to do with spying or any of that bullshit. It was to protect American corporations from competition. If Huawei was doing spying, we could detect it by their data transmission, we can even block it quite easily. The problem is that US and European companies couldn't compete.
And really, they don't need to. We are at the goddamned point where you can see a 1080p film (that's movie theater quality) on your phone. It's just cost reduction now, there's nothing to be added for the consumer.
Huawei has something useful the world wants and we don't have a suitable substitute - we do have Facebook, Twitter, and the lead in making Apps so there is at least that....
The big deal about Hauwai, as far as I can tell, is they were the first with 5G.
You might be thinking "what's the big deal about 5G?" - NOTHING for the consumer. You can download a film faster now, but you already have real time playback. But what's in it for the service provider?
When you are on the network receiving data, you are the ONLY person in the cell receiving the data. Cells are geographical locations connected to a single transmitting/receiver tower. When you are accessing that antenna, you're the ONLY person in the entire area accessing it although you might be sharing it with 100 other people at the same time, even 1000 other people. Cells CAN overlap, but you can ignore that, mostly they don't except on the fringes.
You are on what is called TDMA - Time Division Multiplex Addressing. You get a slot where you have permission to send or receive data, and when you get this slot, you're the only one that does. When you're transmitting a little piece of data, NOBODY else is, that's true for voice or anything. When you are "talking on your phone" you're actually having your voice recorded for a short period of time, having that digitized and compressed and then that data is sent - there's a delay between the time you say something and by the time the person you're talking to hears it, but it's so short they rarely notice it.
Now what if you increase the speed of transmission so it's 10x the old speed? Well you can have 10 x the number of people using the same cell, or you can reduce the number of cells to 1/10th the size. This reduces maintenance costs and upkeep, and increases profit.
The "problem" is the Huawei came up with a workable stable solution for 5G first so some bullshit had to be made up to keep them out of the market. It has nothing to do with spying or any of that bullshit. It was to protect American corporations from competition. If Huawei was doing spying, we could detect it by their data transmission, we can even block it quite easily. The problem is that US and European companies couldn't compete.
And really, they don't need to. We are at the goddamned point where you can see a 1080p film (that's movie theater quality) on your phone. It's just cost reduction now, there's nothing to be added for the consumer.
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