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CenterFuse Broadband Feasibility Report All three major cellular carriers now have fixed cellular data plans. With these plans the carriers place a small dish on a customer home and use cellular frequencies to deliver fixed wireless broadband. The fixed broadband is for normal home consumption—it uses cellular frequency but is not delivered to cellphones. These plans have much larger data caps than on regular cellular plans. For example,the AT&T fixed cellular plan has a monthly data cap of 215 gigabytes. Our experience is that the cellular carriers do not sell these products in cities. These plans use a lot of a cell tower's capacity and the cellular carriers don't want to tie up usage where their goal is to make sure that everybody can make a data connection upon request. 5G The big topic in the telecom industry this year is 5G. All of the carriers are now aggressively marketing a 5G product. However, the reality of 5G today is extremely different than the advertising hype. But in the long run, 5G is a promising technology, and the following discussion discusses today's version of 5G along with the eventual fully implemented version of 5G. 5G is a new wireless standard that was finalized in late 2017. The standard defines various technological improvements that provide a roadmap for providing improved wireless products. The 5G standard can be applied to a wide range of spectrum—and the use case for these spectrums vary according to the physical characteristics of each spectrum. The consequence of this is that there are four different 5G applications being discussed in the market today that are all being labeled as 5G—yet the applications are widely disparate. This has led to a lot of market confusion because the first question that must be asked when somebody talks about 5G is which of the four technologies is being discussed. The press has badly confused the different technologies which has led to articles talking about things like gigabit cellphones—something that is not remotely part of the 5G capabilities. The three different current 5G applications are: • 5G cellular service • 5G hotspots • 5G fiber-to-the-curb • 5G point-to-point links 5G Cellular 5G is the next generation of cellular service that will eventually replace the current 4G LTE. The new 5G standards propose an improved cellular experience for cellphones. There are 13 new major technical improvements required to fully implement 5G. The most important of these are: • The primary stated goal of the 5G standard is to be able to handle up to 100,000 simultaneous connections from a single cell site. We're all familiar with being unable to get a cell signal in a busy environment like an airport or stadium. This upgrade will fix that issue. But the purpose of this feature is to be able to use cellular technology to communicate with Internet of Things(IoT) devices. IoT is a term that refers to the many devices that we communicate with wireless, such as the many devices in a home today that are connected to WiFi. Today most IoT devices works almost exclusively with WiFi, and the cellular companies envision capturing a big piece of that market. Page 73