SAMSUNG’S NEW 5G BREAKTHROUGH POINTS TO LONG TERM RISKS FOR APPLE $AAPL
A report from South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency about Samsung offering 5G service by 2020 caught my eye. Speculation about 5G abounds, so the title was not a surprise. What was intriguing to me was a claim of transmitting data in the millimeter wave band to a distance of two kilometers.
My initial interest was due to my electrical engineering background, I always thought that millimeter wave band was not suitable for long distance transmissions. There is significant atmospheric attenuation in this band.
The news agency report did not tell me much but subsequent information from Samsung shed some light. Samsung used a frequency of 28 GHZ. … Please click here or the title below to read more.
May 13, 2013