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November 6, 2015

The US wants the world to offer more airwaves for 5G and drones

by John_A

Drones set to take off over farm fields

The US doesn’t just want to carve out space for 5G cellular service on its own frequencies — it wants the rest of the world to follow suit. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is calling on other countries to free up more of their wireless spectrum for the sake of 5G, drones and flight tracking systems. Ideally, this would create a wide-enough demand for advanced wireless that the economies of scale make sense. Your favorite phone or robot makers might be more likely to embrace the technology if they know that it’ll be useful across the planet, rather than one or two regions.

Source: Reuters

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