mobile telecommunications
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You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes
Putting your phone in airplane mode when boarding a flight feels like common sense. You wouldn’t be crazy for thinking your phone signal could interfere with an airplane’s navigation systems, potentially causing a disaster. However, the necessity of airplane mode is largely a myth, and there’s another reason airlines are asking you to turn your…
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Annoyingly Oversized Satellite Facilitates First 5G Call to a Regular Phone
As part of its efforts to create a space-based cellular broadband network, AST SpaceMobile made the first ever 5G phone call between its prototype satellite and a Samsung Galaxy S22. The Texas-based startup used its BlueWalker 3 satellite to place a call from a wireless dead zone in Maui, Hawaii to a Vodafone engineer in…
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Canada’s Joining the Anti-Huawei Ban Train
Chinese telecommunications equipment is no longer wanted in the Great White North. Sorry! Canadian officials on Thursday announced a new ban on Huawei and ZTE 5G telecommunications equipment over alleged national security concerns. With the ban, Canada will join the U.S. U.K., Australia, and New Zealand, collectively known as the “Five Eyes.”
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Airline CEOs Warn of Unprecedented ‘Chaos’ Tied to This Week’s 5G Rollout
For weeks, airlines have been cautioning authorities over the delays and disruptions that would happen in the wake of telco companies’ planned rollout of 5G technology, and things are getting serious. On Monday, the CEOs of several transportation giants like Delta, JetBlue, and American Airlines warned transportation officials that “tens of thousands” of Americans risked…