Before the new technology becomes a reality for consumers, two transitions need to take place.
1) Mobile operators have to upgrade their networks with 5G gear made by the likes of Huawei and ZTE of China, Sweden’s Ericsson and Finland’s Nokia. And;
2) Phone makers need to make handsets with built-in 5G radios ready to hook up to networks.
Qualcomm is the dominant player in smartphone communications chips, making half of all core baseband radio chips in smartphones. It is one of the last big U.S. technology companies with a major role in mobile communications hardware.
Most other baseband chips come from Asia: MediaTek of Taiwan holds about one quarter of the market, while Samsung Electronics and Huawei -— two big smartphone makers - develop chips for their own devices. Huawei does through a subsidiary known as HiSilicon.
Its dominant position in 5G comes from its mastery of two areas:
1) Getting its patents adopted in what are known as standards and then
2) Selling the chip designs that work with those standards.
The standards are set by a global body to ensure all phones work across different mobile networks, and whoever’s essential patents end up making it into the standard stands to reap huge royalty licensing revenue streams.
Qualcomm has landed a number of these foundational patents, which means that both handset makers and telecommunications gear makers will have to pay it licensing fees. It dominated standards setting in 3G and 4G wireless and looks set to top the list of patent holders heading into the 5G cycle.
Check this out:
1. US detains Huawei CFO in Canada, arrests Chinese intelligence officer Yanjun Xu in Belgium, extradites to US. China hits US Intel providers. Google/China Dragonfly OP fails after POTUS interference, China attack on CenturyLink 911 services, possibly DOD Dark Fiber services?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1078610531399811077.html
That’s one scary read!
“Everything’s watching me” won’t be a phrase uttered by paranoriacs in the future.
OK, but what is "SEP"?
Gee! Talk about a universal spy network. He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. You had better be good for goodness sake. Enslavement of the connected human race. And the Chinese are leading the way. Just pay your taxes and never stray from the official party line.
I think some parts of Germany don’t have 3G yet.
I really detest it when acronyms aren’t defined.
WTH is an ‘SEP’?
Sad report, how little U.S. corporate giants are in this 5G advance.
“Globalism” and “free enterprise” are truly NOT practiced anywhere in East Asia - Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan. They are all nationalist, mercantilist, state-capitalist (each in their own way) while the boards of all the U.S. majors were convinced to ignore that and treat them (Asian companies) no different than a competing American company; while the Asia corporate giants are all nationalists caring about their nationalism first and last, not western “globalism”.
“A global 5G network would unify mobile communication and connect individuals or devices to everything through the Internet of Things (IoT). 5G technology can connect vehicles, ships, buildings, meters, machines and other items with electronics, software, sensors and the Cloud, while embedded 5G technology would allow machines to exchange information and integrate computer-based systems in the physical world.”
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I’ll be watching you
Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I’ll be watching you
Oh, can’t you see
You belong to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs