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“Smart Base of the Future” is First in Military to Use 5G

Advanced networking technology will be become a fundamental part of military in mission delivery while helping it keep its
the backbone of the armed forces, but the operations. Initial services under the technological advantage.” AT&T has been
rollout won’t happen overnight. By mid- agreement with AT&T will include mobility, aggressive in its rollout of 5G. Two years
2020, Tyndall Air Force Base in the Florida cloud access, unified communications, ago the telecom brought 5G to 12 cities
panhandle will have a unique distinction: It voice, broadband, Wi-Fi expansion, and across the U.S., where customers were
will carry 5G service. It’s a happy distinction an array of connected devices. AT&T’s granted access to Netgear Nighthawk 5G
for a base known more for catastrophe networking solution at Tyndall will support hotspots. The company plans to have 5G
of late. The base suffered significant network compute and storage as well as access in 30 states via its hotspot rollout
structural damage in Hurricane Michael in network edge capabilities that can more by the end of 2019. Concurrent to its rollout
2018, when the Category 5 storm battered quickly deliver data and applications to of 5G hotspots, AT&T has gotten into some
it with 160-MPH winds. In the wake of the users. “The Air Force and AT&T share a hot wire over rebranding certain 4G phones
devastation, the Air Force is rebuilding vision for the smart base of the future: one with a misleading 5GE label. Sprint sued
Tyndall as a model of a modern, connected that uses modern, commercially available AT&T over the move, and other carriers
base. Helping in the effort is AT&T, which communications capabilities to help our have charged AT&T with misleading
has been on a publicity blitz of late around military maintain its globally competitive consumers. The Tyndall rollout makes a
the ongoing rollout of its 5G network. The edge in defending our freedoms,” said nice publicity counterpart, and the base
base will feature networking capabilities Xavier Williams, President, AT&T Global should benefit from enhanced networking
powered by AT&T 5G to support augmented Public Sector. “We’re proud to work with speeds thanks AT&T’s 5G network.
and virtual reality, IoT, and a broad array the Air Force and help fulfill its vision for
of innovative technologies that may soon how technology can power improvements

China Begins Facial Recognition for SIM Registration

Chinese regulations on the collection of biometric data during user
registrations came into force, alongside other rules authorities claim will
tackle fraud and prevent illegal SIM card resale. Under the law, announced
by the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)
in September, the country’s three operators must scan the faces of users
during the registration process. From the public version of notice it is unclear
if existing customers of China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom
will eventually also need to provide biometric verification data. Between the
country’s operators, they had 1.6 billion mobile subscribers at the end of
Q3, GSMA Intelligence estimated. In its notice, the MIIT said the rules would
“strengthen the management of real name registration of telephone users to
safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens in cyberspace” and
“lay a solid foundation for the construction of a network integrity system”.
Operators were given until 1 December to implement “portrait comparison”
technology using AI or similar innovations to verify users. Under other rules
laid out as part of the initiative, operators must amend their terms of service
to clarify the illegality of reselling SIMs. Companies are also required to
carry out a publicity campaign to address this issue.

Telekom Launches 5G in Hamburg

Telekom Deutschland, the domestic fixed maximum download speeds of 1Gbps, launches in Berlin, Bonn, Darmstadt,
and mobile unit of Deutsche Telekom with the number set to rise to more than Munich and Cologne. By the end of 2020
(DT), has switched on its 5G network in 40 in the next few weeks. The expansion the total number of 5G antennas is set to
Hamburg. A total of 18 5G antennas are to Hamburg brings the total number of rise to more than 1,500 across more than
currently in operation in the city, supporting Telekom 5G cities to six, following earlier 20 cities.

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