Dec 17, 2019
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Morning everybody. Hopefully, you're having a great day. It's a great week. Today we got snow and freezing rain coming in the northeast. My anyways, today I was on with Jim Polito. And we talked about five G and a couple of other technologies. So here we go with Jim.
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Craig Peterson
Morning everybody. Hopefully, you're having a great day. It's a
great week. Today we got snow and freezing rain coming in the
northeast. My anyways, today I was on with Jim Polito. And we
talked about five G and a couple of other technologies. So here we
go with Jim.
Jim Polito
This guy. He's like the Santa Claus of the tech world. I'm talking
about my good friend and yours. He's our Tech Talk guru, Craig
Peterson. Good morning, Sir. How are you today?
Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning. I am doing so well. It's been fun. I was at a
family wedding last week. My sister in law got married. It was
lovely. Today, I'm heading down to the swamp. So we'll see how that
goes.
Jim Polito
Yeah. Have fun. It is a busy time of year, and we hopefully will
have a white Christmas. Soon we will have Christmas, Hanukkah, and
on Monday, it is Festivus Monday. Hanukkah begins Saturday, and
then we've got Christmas Wednesday. That is the trifecta of the Big
Three religions in the world. I can't believe that Christmas Eve is
a week from today. Isn't Canadian Christmas tomorrow?
Craig Peterson
It was a couple of weeks ago because that's what I told my kids and
so they gave me my present then. Okay. In honor. You know, my dad
used to tell me that Christmas Eve was a Norwegians holiday, of
course, that is why it is Peterson, right? Yeah. Norwegians would
open a gift on Christmas Eve, and I'm not sure I'm going to have to
ask him if that was yet another made-up holiday to keep us
quiet.
Jim Polito
No, but we used to. I mean, I know a lot of families did that. Have
the kids opened a gift on Christmas Eve? And then keep them quiet.
My family did. We were Italian. Everything was Christmas Eve.
Christmas Day was a big meal. But that was it. All the gifts for
Christmas Eve.
Craig Peterson
That's a great idea.
Jim Polito
That's it.
Craig Peterson
We've got one of our daughter's, you know, speaking of trifectas.
She's working over in Kentucky. She's one of the managers on the
farm that won the Triple Crown last year. She and her daughter are
coming up. my granddaughter and she's bringing a boyfriend with
her, and I'm sitting here wondering what that is all about.
Jim Polito
You better get ready for that. Hey, If you are looking to upgrade
your phone - should I get one with the latest in connectivity. So
should I buy a 5g phone or not.
Craig Peterson
Today, there are some manufacturers with 5G phones. You know, we've
talked about how it's going to be the big wave, it is going to
change everything. You look at how we have these autonomous
vehicles, more or less starting to hit the roads. Now, 5g is going
to let them talk to each other, talk to the cloud, and get really
up to date information. With 5G, even your Levi's trucker jacket to
talk to it. Everything is going to be connected. You're going to
buy a laptop, and it will come all of them with 5G built into it.
It's going to be everywhere. However, the question now for those of
you don't know you've got 4g on your phone. Now. 5g is the latest
bit of wireless communication now.
Jim Polito
I understand. I read an article that there's an experiment Going on
the closest 5g to us right now in Massachusetts isn't there an
experiment going on in Providence, Rhode Island? Aren't they
getting 5g right now?
Craig Peterson
Well, yeah, but here's the problem. It is kind of like when 4g LTE
came out, and this is the data standard for your phones. It was 4g,
somewhat. Now what we're seeing is in a minimal area, we're talking
about a few blocks of a few downtown areas, New York City, being
one of them. I do think something is going on in Providence right
now. Yeah, where you're getting 5g, but you're getting what's
called the wideband ultra wideband. So here's what we see right
now. The Big Boy right now on the block with 5g is T Mobile.
Jim Polito
Yeah, I think that's who's experimenting Providence. Yeah.
Craig Peterson
Yeah. Friday, they turned on their 600 megahertz 5g network. Now,
this is 5g, but it's not as fast as the ultra-wideband 5g is. It's,
but it's like 100 megabits a second. That's crazy, quick. But
whining, but ultimately 5g is going to be one gigabit so so here's
the trick for Christmas for gift giving. Yeah, for your self.
Right. Samsung has announced a couple of phones out there, the
Galaxy Note 10 plus and the one plus 70. Both of those phones are
on pre-order. But don't buy a 5g phone unless you have to buy a new
phone right now.
Jim Polito
That's a good piece of advice.
Craig Peterson
Yeah. AT&T and Verizon both have some ultra wideband networks
that are about a 50 megabits faster right now than T-mobile's. But
they only cover a few blocks of a few downtown Areas versus t
mobile's that's more or less nationwide wait into the summer of
2020. I would advise you to wait till the fall because that's when
our friends at Apple are going to have their new iPhone 12. But at
that point, everything will be solidified. And that's why Apple
didn't come up with 5g and the iPhone 11. We're not ready yet. It
is going to roll out. We're going to see upwards of a gigabit with
the bandwidth, and then everything's going to change, and I'm going
to be taking a much different tune.
Jim Polito
Isn't this great. So folks, all that Fast Five G that you've heard
about you just heard from Craig wants you to wait, maybe the summer
maybe the fall. Now, Craig. The other question is, Why are people
so upset with 5g towers? What's the is this kind of like the
anti-vaccination movement? I mean, what's the problem with 5g
towers, I've had 4g, 3g, all of it.
Craig Peterson
Yeah, exactly. And it's not as though you're a dumber than you were
a few years ago.
Jim Polito
I wouldn't use that analogy. I mean, it depends upon the tool
you're using to measure intelligence. But go ahead.
Craig Peterson
Now, you know, I have an advanced class ham license from the FCC.
Yes, yes. I can. I can transmit 1500 watts. Myself. Yeah. Yeah.
With this fair amount of power. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And unlimited
power when you get up into the light range. So doing Earthbound
moon bounces and stuff. But anyway, here's the problem. People hear
the word radiation, and they freak out. Yeah. When we're talking
about cell towers, they radiate. They have radiation, but there is
a big difference. Okay, we're talking about two different types of
radiation. You have ionizing radiation, which is the dangerous
stuff. That's what you get from nuclear power plants to the core of
the reactor in Chernobyl. And then you have non-ionizing radiation,
which is what you get from cell phones and cell phone towers. Now,
the reason people are kind of getting upset about this gym is
unlike 4g and prior where you have these big trees that look
artificial. I know there is one on the Merritt Parkway in
Connecticut. It's kind of my landmark like, oh, I'm almost at the
New York line. It's one of those trees. Yeah. So I'm like that,
with 5g because of the frequencies involved. There have to be
upwards of 100 times as many of these transmissions right. And so
there will be a lot of them. They'll be mounting them on the sides
of buildings. They're much much, much smaller. But there are many,
many more of them. And depending on where you live, etc., you may
or may not see these bills pay you to have one on the side of your
house, because it'll cover your neighbors, it'll cover your
neighborhood. And this is going to be a massive blow to the cable
TV companies. Because if you can get gigabit for cheap, right, you
know, from whomever your provider is, it's going to make a big
difference. But they've got to get out of these towers, if you
will, are these really what they are 5g cell sites all over the
place. So people are worried there's going to be so many of them
they're going to be right next to I see that going to cause harm?
And the reality is there's no real science, and I'll just kind of
leave it there. But there's no real scientist that says that any of
this is harmful to humans. It is non-ionizing radiation.
Jim Polito
Yeah, exactly. Okay. Craig, this was fascinating now. Folks, you
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not going to charge you anything. Craig, fantastic segment, and we
look forward to talking with you on Christmas Eve.
Craig Peterson
All right. Take care, gentlemen.
Jim Polito
All right. We'll be right back that was a great segment, Danny. Now
I understand. 5g and everything else. And I don't need it right
now. But man, that's going to be great when you have that kind of
signal and power that's going to be great. And just to see the
difference that we went from even 3g to 4g yeah difference from 4g
to 5g is even bigger than that. What a leap. All right, don't go
anywhere. We have a final word. When we return. You're listening to
the Jim Pulido show your safe space.
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