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Did Airtel ever launch 4G as promised? Business opportunities are like buses,there's always another one coming
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KulaRaha wrote:Did Airtel ever launch 4G as promised? equipment has been bought.if they can do wonders with 20bob what about 4G?
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/24/2010 Posts: 136 Location: Nairobi
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KulaRaha wrote:Did Airtel ever launch 4G as promised? I heard they are testing it in Nairobi already but none has confirmed.. I understand 4G needs SIM swap but that hasn't happened yet Making money never gets boring
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The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly.
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/24/2010 Posts: 136 Location: Nairobi
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. AT&T is already on 5G.. Most of smartphone apps cannot run without internet good example is siri for iPhone therefore the idea of bundles is about to hit a dead end. Its funny how Safaricom frequently advise us to disable auto-updates, switch off this, switch off that in order to manage/save data instead of giving us unlimited plan. The moment you follow their advice you realize your smartphone is no longer smart Making money never gets boring
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,979
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Alfylavie wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. AT&T is already on 5G.. Most of smartphone apps cannot run without internet good example is siri for iPhone therefore the idea of bundles is about to hit a dead end. Its funny how Safaricom frequently advise us to disable auto-updates, switch off this, switch off that in order to manage/save data instead of giving us unlimited plan. The moment you follow their advice you realize your smartphone is no longer smart ATT is testing 5G which is mostly fiber network not wireless network. Avg ATT unlimited bill is $100 per month that's about 10K for a bundle of unlimited data ofcourse with voice and txt. When safcom comes up with that, 10K per month plan then maybe, otherwise safcom is offering what the majority can afford. The other carriers data is capped at 10Gb after that it slows down. ATT had a cap too, but when they were taken to court by FTC for misinforming subscribers, they amended the plan. All carriers will advise you to change your settings such that your phone can only make updates when connected on wifi. Another thing, most phones in KE are not even 4G compatible so even unlimited data would not be maximized "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 8/25/2012 Posts: 1,826
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murchr wrote:Alfylavie wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. AT&T is already on 5G.. Most of smartphone apps cannot run without internet good example is siri for iPhone therefore the idea of bundles is about to hit a dead end. Its funny how Safaricom frequently advise us to disable auto-updates, switch off this, switch off that in order to manage/save data instead of giving us unlimited plan. The moment you follow their advice you realize your smartphone is no longer smart ATT is testing 5G which is mostly fiber network not wireless network. Avg ATT unlimited bill is $100 per month that's about 10K for a bundle of unlimited data ofcourse with voice and txt. When safcom comes up with that, 10K per month plan then maybe, otherwise safcom is offering what the majority can afford. The other carriers data is capped at 10Gb after that it slows down. ATT had a cap too, but when they were taken to court by FTC for misinforming subscribers, they amended the plan. All carriers will advise you to change your settings such that your phone can only make updates when connected on wifi. Another thing, most phones in KE are not even 4G compatible so even unlimited data would not be maximized how can 5g be fiber if its supposed to be a mobile wireless standard. but huko majuu there are providers with unlimited at around $30 with a limit throttling the speeds to around 3/4 mbps which is decent, or the likes of verizon where its unlimited for like 4 lines each at $30/$40 which is also a decent offer. when orange had the unlimited at 3k and throttled to around 256 kbps I found that ok, even at the throttled speeds one could browse and watch youtube at lowest settings
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,979
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:murchr wrote:Alfylavie wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. AT&T is already on 5G.. Most of smartphone apps cannot run without internet good example is siri for iPhone therefore the idea of bundles is about to hit a dead end. Its funny how Safaricom frequently advise us to disable auto-updates, switch off this, switch off that in order to manage/save data instead of giving us unlimited plan. The moment you follow their advice you realize your smartphone is no longer smart ATT is testing 5G which is mostly fiber network not wireless network. Avg ATT unlimited bill is $100 per month that's about 10K for a bundle of unlimited data ofcourse with voice and txt. When safcom comes up with that, 10K per month plan then maybe, otherwise safcom is offering what the majority can afford. The other carriers data is capped at 10Gb after that it slows down. ATT had a cap too, but when they were taken to court by FTC for misinforming subscribers, they amended the plan. All carriers will advise you to change your settings such that your phone can only make updates when connected on wifi. Another thing, most phones in KE are not even 4G compatible so even unlimited data would not be maximized how can 5g be fiber if its supposed to be a mobile wireless standard.but huko majuu there are providers with unlimited at around $30 with a limit throttling the speeds to around 3/4 mbps which is decent, or the likes of verizon where its unlimited for like 4 lines each at $30/$40 which is also a decent offer. when orange had the unlimited at 3k and throttled to around 256 kbps I found that ok, even at the throttled speeds one could browse and watch youtube at lowest settings WIFI - when you are in your house, you are using wifi not mobile networks. those $30 $40 plans are slow speeds cant play live videos without buffering and they are capped. Decent speeds cost about $50 but they are capped too. "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 8/10/2014 Posts: 953 Location: Kenya
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. As per what Bob Collymore said, unlimited internet leads to a hockey stick effect in the usage of the pipes without an equal amount of revenue.So many people will start torrenting movies throughout the day. Wireless has a smaller capacity as compared to fiber. In the US everyone has wifi in their homes so there will always be a substitute when it comes to the heavy lifting
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/15/2015 Posts: 817
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in the US the have the cheapest bandwidth.if you can get gigabit for 70$ that is google fiber then you understand the situation there.unlimited data in kenya willnot work.no bandwidth to support it.look at zuku for instance with their 1mbps upload rates.its a joke.you should have seen the celebration on social media when verizon brought back the unlimited data.the data hunger s real.
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murchr wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:murchr wrote:Alfylavie wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. AT&T is already on 5G.. Most of smartphone apps cannot run without internet good example is siri for iPhone therefore the idea of bundles is about to hit a dead end. Its funny how Safaricom frequently advise us to disable auto-updates, switch off this, switch off that in order to manage/save data instead of giving us unlimited plan. The moment you follow their advice you realize your smartphone is no longer smart ATT is testing 5G which is mostly fiber network not wireless network. Avg ATT unlimited bill is $100 per month that's about 10K for a bundle of unlimited data ofcourse with voice and txt. When safcom comes up with that, 10K per month plan then maybe, otherwise safcom is offering what the majority can afford. The other carriers data is capped at 10Gb after that it slows down. ATT had a cap too, but when they were taken to court by FTC for misinforming subscribers, they amended the plan. All carriers will advise you to change your settings such that your phone can only make updates when connected on wifi. Another thing, most phones in KE are not even 4G compatible so even unlimited data would not be maximized how can 5g be fiber if its supposed to be a mobile wireless standard.but huko majuu there are providers with unlimited at around $30 with a limit throttling the speeds to around 3/4 mbps which is decent, or the likes of verizon where its unlimiteyd for like 4 lines each at $30/$40 which is also a decent offer. when orange had the unlimited at 3k and throttled to around 256 kbps I found that ok, even at the throttled speeds one could browse and watch youtube at lowest settings WIFI - when you are in your house, you are using wifi not mobile networks. those $30 $40 plans are slow speeds cant play live videos without buffering and they are capped. Decent speeds cost about $50 but they are capped too. Agree I think streaming is major huko, tus the need for bigger bandwidth, but more and more guys are moving to the phone being the main entertainment gadget and thus unlimited internet on the mobile will somehow need to be provided.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 8/25/2012 Posts: 1,826
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watesh wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. As per what Bob Collymore said, unlimited internet leads to a hockey stick effect in the usage of the pipes without an equal amount of revenue.So many people will start torrenting movies throughout the day. Wireless has a smaller capacity as compared to fiber. In the US everyone has wifi in their homes so there will always be a substitute when it comes to the heavy lifting bob and safcom are just out to make as much cash as possible especially in the absence of any tangible competition. If its only torrents, can't the same be blocked, kenya and the west are different in that infrastructure in ke is minimal, thus in the case of internet, provision of the same to majority can only work via mobile data.
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:murchr wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:murchr wrote:Alfylavie wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. AT&T is already on 5G.. Most of smartphone apps cannot run without internet good example is siri for iPhone therefore the idea of bundles is about to hit a dead end. Its funny how Safaricom frequently advise us to disable auto-updates, switch off this, switch off that in order to manage/save data instead of giving us unlimited plan. The moment you follow their advice you realize your smartphone is no longer smart ATT is testing 5G which is mostly fiber network not wireless network. Avg ATT unlimited bill is $100 per month that's about 10K for a bundle of unlimited data ofcourse with voice and txt. When safcom comes up with that, 10K per month plan then maybe, otherwise safcom is offering what the majority can afford. The other carriers data is capped at 10Gb after that it slows down. ATT had a cap too, but when they were taken to court by FTC for misinforming subscribers, they amended the plan. All carriers will advise you to change your settings such that your phone can only make updates when connected on wifi. Another thing, most phones in KE are not even 4G compatible so even unlimited data would not be maximized how can 5g be fiber if its supposed to be a mobile wireless standard.but huko majuu there are providers with unlimited at around $30 with a limit throttling the speeds to around 3/4 mbps which is decent, or the likes of verizon where its unlimiteyd for like 4 lines each at $30/$40 which is also a decent offer. when orange had the unlimited at 3k and throttled to around 256 kbps I found that ok, even at the throttled speeds one could browse and watch youtube at lowest settings WIFI - when you are in your house, you are using wifi not mobile networks. those $30 $40 plans are slow speeds cant play live videos without buffering and they are capped. Decent speeds cost about $50 but they are capped too. Agree I think streaming is major huko, tus the need for bigger bandwidth, but more and more guys are moving to the phone being the main entertainment gadget and thus unlimited internet on the mobile will somehow need to be provided. The phone has become the main target Yes. Do you know, in the west, you can watch TV anywhere with your gadget. Your home internet provider is your home phone and TV provider, lets say time warner cable (Imagine DSTV offering phone and internet), will allow you to log in and watch TV anywhere as long as you are connected to the internet. Good thing is, wifi is available, everywhere - at restaurants, airports, work, parks, and so many hotspots so as long as you are in range, you are on the net. Safaricom has now noticed that you have so much love for netflix and such like streaming services. They are now rushing to give fiber in the home. What would be good is to give per month rates at par with the rest but offer a better service. "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 8/10/2014 Posts: 953 Location: Kenya
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:watesh wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. As per what Bob Collymore said, unlimited internet leads to a hockey stick effect in the usage of the pipes without an equal amount of revenue.So many people will start torrenting movies throughout the day. Wireless has a smaller capacity as compared to fiber. In the US everyone has wifi in their homes so there will always be a substitute when it comes to the heavy lifting bob and safcom are just out to make as much cash as possible especially in the absence of any tangible competition. If its only torrents, can't the same be blocked, kenya and the west are different in that infrastructure in ke is minimal, thus in the case of internet, provision of the same to majority can only work via mobile data. Block torrents tena? Am not spending more money on buying movies. Btw internet in Kenya is cheaper than the west. $70 per month for 8GB on Verizon. For half the price you will get 12GB (Ksh3,000)at Safaricom and it carries over the next month. If you have a 4g sim card, same speeds
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watesh wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:watesh wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. As per what Bob Collymore said, unlimited internet leads to a hockey stick effect in the usage of the pipes without an equal amount of revenue.So many people will start torrenting movies throughout the day. Wireless has a smaller capacity as compared to fiber. In the US everyone has wifi in their homes so there will always be a substitute when it comes to the heavy lifting bob and safcom are just out to make as much cash as possible especially in the absence of any tangible competition. If its only torrents, can't the same be blocked, kenya and the west are different in that infrastructure in ke is minimal, thus in the case of internet, provision of the same to majority can only work via mobile data. Block torrents tena? Am not spending more money on buying movies. Btw internet in Kenya is cheaper than the west. $70 per month for 8GB on Verizon. For half the price you will get 12GB (Ksh3,000)at Safaricom and it carries over the next month. If you have a 4g sim card, same speeds I have never understood how mobile contracts work especially in the states, but I think they bundle sms, calls, phone payments in those charges. can someone from majuu confirm 
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murchr wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:murchr wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:murchr wrote:Alfylavie wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. AT&T is already on 5G.. Most of smartphone apps cannot run without internet good example is siri for iPhone therefore the idea of bundles is about to hit a dead end. Its funny how Safaricom frequently advise us to disable auto-updates, switch off this, switch off that in order to manage/save data instead of giving us unlimited plan. The moment you follow their advice you realize your smartphone is no longer smart ATT is testing 5G which is mostly fiber network not wireless network. Avg ATT unlimited bill is $100 per month that's about 10K for a bundle of unlimited data ofcourse with voice and txt. When safcom comes up with that, 10K per month plan then maybe, otherwise safcom is offering what the majority can afford. The other carriers data is capped at 10Gb after that it slows down. ATT had a cap too, but when they were taken to court by FTC for misinforming subscribers, they amended the plan. All carriers will advise you to change your settings such that your phone can only make updates when connected on wifi. Another thing, most phones in KE are not even 4G compatible so even unlimited data would not be maximized how can 5g be fiber if its supposed to be a mobile wireless standard.but huko majuu there are providers with unlimited at around $30 with a limit throttling the speeds to around 3/4 mbps which is decent, or the likes of verizon where its unlimiteyd for like 4 lines each at $30/$40 which is also a decent offer. when orange had the unlimited at 3k and throttled to around 256 kbps I found that ok, even at the throttled speeds one could browse and watch youtube at lowest settings WIFI - when you are in your house, you are using wifi not mobile networks. those $30 $40 plans are slow speeds cant play live videos without buffering and they are capped. Decent speeds cost about $50 but they are capped too. Agree I think streaming is major huko, tus the need for bigger bandwidth, but more and more guys are moving to the phone being the main entertainment gadget and thus unlimited internet on the mobile will somehow need to be provided. The phone has become the main target Yes. Do you know, in the west, you can watch TV anywhere with your gadget. Your home internet provider is your home phone and TV provider, lets say time warner cable (Imagine DSTV offering phone and internet), will allow you to log in and watch TV anywhere as long as you are connected to the internet. Good thing is, wifi is available, everywhere - at restaurants, airports, work, parks, and so many hotspots so as long as you are in range, you are on the net. Safaricom has now noticed that you have so much love for netflix and such like streaming services. They are now rushing to give fiber in the home. What would be good is to give per month rates at par with the rest but offer a better service. the other day a guy came selling me data, they are re-sellers he told me they get the data from safcom and jtl, I am liking this data re-seller thing, not sure if its still new ama it has been in existence for long, but I think this way data can go the mpesa route, where you have smaller players coming in and forming a big distribution network.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/2/2012 Posts: 1,134 Location: Nairobi
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Alfylavie wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. AT&T is already on 5G.. Most of smartphone apps cannot run without internet good example is siri for iPhone therefore the idea of bundles is about to hit a dead end. Its funny how Safaricom frequently advise us to disable auto-updates, switch off this, switch off that in order to manage/save data instead of giving us unlimited plan. The moment you follow their advice you realize your smartphone is no longer smart This RINK disagrees... https://www.quora.com/Wh...tween-1G-2G-3G-4G-and-5G
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chiaroscuro wrote:Alfylavie wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. AT&T is already on 5G.. Most of smartphone apps cannot run without internet good example is siri for iPhone therefore the idea of bundles is about to hit a dead end. Its funny how Safaricom frequently advise us to disable auto-updates, switch off this, switch off that in order to manage/save data instead of giving us unlimited plan. The moment you follow their advice you realize your smartphone is no longer smart This RINK disagrees... https://www.quora.com/Wh...ween-1G-2G-3G-4G-and-5G When was that article written? and it seems like a comment.. Get it from AT&T WEBSITE. Lab Trial is done and field trial is scheduled in phases.. June they will be offering home internet service based on 5G in Austin, Middletown and New Jersey.. Qualcomm C.E.O also has also assured us 5G phones are coming earlier than we thought.. but in the mean time Home internet will be live. AT&T 5GMaking money never gets boring
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Alfylavie wrote:chiaroscuro wrote:Alfylavie wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:The american mobile providers have gone back to unlimited data, this might be the direction the mobile telecom industry will go, with 4g and a supposedly faster 5g in the works and also considering more and more people are ditching their computers for their phones when it comes to the basic IT related tasks , data prices will drop significantly. AT&T is already on 5G.. Most of smartphone apps cannot run without internet good example is siri for iPhone therefore the idea of bundles is about to hit a dead end. Its funny how Safaricom frequently advise us to disable auto-updates, switch off this, switch off that in order to manage/save data instead of giving us unlimited plan. The moment you follow their advice you realize your smartphone is no longer smart This RINK disagrees... https://www.quora.com/Wh...ween-1G-2G-3G-4G-and-5G When was that article written? and it seems like a comment.. Get it from AT&T WEBSITE. Lab Trial is done and field trial is scheduled in phases.. June they will be offering home internet service based on 5G in Austin, Middletown and New Jersey.. Qualcomm C.E.O also has also assured us 5G phones are coming earlier than we thought.. but in the mean time Home internet will be live. AT&T 5G guys are moving to 5G and we are still having difficulties with 3G, I see lots of EDGE spots around.
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Alfylavie wrote:When was that article written? and it seems like a comment.. Get it from AT&T WEBSITE. Lab Trial is done and field trial is scheduled in phases.. June they will be offering home internet service based on 5G in Austin, Middletown and New Jersey.. Qualcomm C.E.O also has also assured us 5G phones are coming earlier than we thought.. but in the mean time Home internet will be live. AT&T 5G According to the timeline of the ITU (the global governing body), the 5G standard isn't even expected to be completed until at least 2020. Link here. The link you share simply discusses joint field trials between AT&T, Intel and Ericsson.
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