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On 11/15/2021 11:06 AM Alex Fraser <<a href="mailto:beatnic50@gmail.com">beatnic50@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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An interesting paper from the MIC (Military Industrial Complex). 5G
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implementations are more than just watching TV on your phone. Of course
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as a Ham I immediately thought that if this stuff gets deployed (and
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works!), that the old stuff would be tossed in dumpsters that we could
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pick and get to play with. As the wave of technology passes you can
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find deal in the frothy foam that follows the breaking waves. In the
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article they mention "Quantum" and "encryption" in the same sentence.
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Does the big hush hush get beat by marketing hype or is this another
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Glowmar Explorer picking up nickle from the ocean bed?
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<a href="https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/space/documents/space/hivestar-spacecloud.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/space/documents/space/hivestar-spacecloud.pdf</a>
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It's not just hype. Quantum computing is real, but it's something I
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I really don't understand yet.
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Is for 5G, it not all roses. There was an article in the paper yesterday
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that talked about the fact that the companies planning to use it are
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having to keep the old systems around for a while, including 3G and
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4G. Depending on the company, 3G will be around for a half year or
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more because a lot of things that use it can't work with the newer varieties
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of transmission. In particular, a number of IOT devices use 3G--alarms
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for patients were mentioned. Plus, 3G is the only technology in place
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for a lot of remote areas, and cutting it off would mean depriving them
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of any service at all.
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