{"id":35463,"date":"2019-11-12T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=35463"},"modified":"2022-06-24T10:56:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:56:18","slug":"5g-hype-real-just-look-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/5g-hype-real-just-look-history\/","title":{"rendered":"5G: The Hype is Real, Just Look at History"},"content":{"rendered":"

By John Godfrey, Senior Vice President of Public Policy, Samsung Electronics America<\/em><\/p>\n

Flash back to 2009.<\/p>\n

Facebook is a neat new website you visit on your desktop during lunch \u2013 sometimes you spend the afternoon uploading vacation photos. When it\u2019s time to head home, you walk outside to hail a cab \u2013 even though it\u2019s pouring rain. If only there were a way to get weather updates in real time, or even a cab of your own.\u00a0 No matter \u2013 sitting on your doorstep when you arrive home are two DVDs from a new company called Netflix that ships movies directly to your house.<\/p>\n

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Now fast forward to 2019. Ten years is an unfathomably long period of time in the world of technology. The mobile applications driving today\u2019s digital economy \u2013 from social networking and streaming services to ride-sharing apps \u2013 either look nothing like they did in 2009 or did not exist at all.\u00a0 Facebook is now the world\u2019s second largest advertising platform; Netflix has gone on to pioneer the world of streaming entertainment, giving the likes of HBO a run for its money; and, ride sharing applications like Uber and Lyft were the stuff of fantasy.<\/p>\n

Which begs the question \u2013 what enabled the back-of-the-napkin ideas of 2009 to mature into the cornerstones of today\u2019s digital economy?<\/p>\n

The answer is simple: exponentially more connectivity in more places, thanks to the advent of 4G LTE wireless technology.<\/p>\n

With 4G, consumers were no longer dependent on a wired connection to access the internet at full speed. Thanks to the rise of smartphones, that capability was carried around in pockets across America.\u00a0 Consumers could enjoy new services everywhere, all day long. Constant, convenient availability is what turned social media, streaming media, and ride sharing\u2014not to mention online shopping, casual gaming, and much more\u2014into the centerpieces of our daily lives.<\/p>\n

With 4G, the wireless network was now capable of moving large amounts of data almost anywhere. Combined with the computing and display powers of the smartphone, developers were empowered with a powerful wireless platform that could take their disruptive ideas from concept to scale.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Today, a decade after Americans got their first taste of the technologies that would change how we live, work and have fun, we are at another critical point of transformation when it comes to 5G.<\/p>\n

Like its predecessor, next generation 5G technology is the platform upon which tomorrow\u2019s economy will be built, adding high speed connectivity, low latency, and massive machine-to-machine connectivity to smartphones, wearables, connected cars, and IoT devices, all while powering AI and supercharging the flow of rich data.<\/p>\n

If history is any lesson, the leap forward in technical performance of 5G will present a ripe platform for accelerated disruption. It will take time to build out the 5G network so that it can reach its full potential. Policy-makers can accelerate this process by making more spectrum available at low, medium, and high frequencies, and by streamlining regulations that slow deployment of 5G infrastructure.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, it is important to remember that, as with 4G ten years ago, the most transformative applications of 5G will not always be clear right out of the gate.<\/p>\n

Here is what we do <\/em>know, and why the hype around 5G is already well worth it.<\/p>\n

Mobile 5G is fast. Really fast.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

In testing the speed of 5G in cities across the country, CNET<\/a> recently called the speed of 5G awe-inspiring: \u201cWe’ve seen an almost two-hour movie download in 8.2 seconds and witnessed speeds almost 20 times faster than what you might see on your 4G phone (a 5G peak of 1.8Gbps so far).\u201d<\/p>\n

Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G phone are available across major U.S. carriers. Additionally, the Galaxy Note10+ 5G is now available on Verizon.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>5G comes with compelling industrial use cases<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Mobile is not the end all, be all when it comes to 5G. By harnessing 5G\u2019s high data capacity and low latency, everything from hospitals to factories will have access to new applications that improve efficiency, safety, security and operational performance in enterprise environments.<\/p>\n

In June, Samsung joined AT&T in launching a 5G Innovation Zone<\/a> at our Samsung Austin Semiconductor facility in Texas, demonstrating 5G’s impact on the Smart Factory and highlighting use cases that involve robotics, industrial IoT and AR training and safety applications.<\/p>\n