US consumers remain indifferent to 5G, as carriers race to deploy it

Among the 86% who said the pandemic will bring about some kind of change, most said they expect that the evolution of digital life will continue to feature both positives and negatives. These expert views link in interesting ways with public attitudes. A Pew Research survey in August 2020 found that 51% of U.S. adults said they expected their lives to remain changed in major ways even after the pandemic is over.

Craig Silliman, an executive vice president for a major global company, wrote, While COVID-19 has forced us to distance physically, it has brought individuals closer together. Many of us have spent years in countless meetings and meals and on airplanes with colleagues and yet never learned as much about them as we have in the past four months. When we lost our physical proximity, we created emotional bridges that connected us in new and profound ways. It turns out that it took forced distancing to bring out our most complete and authentic humanity. I believe that once we are together again physically, we will not forget what we learned while we were apart, and that will make for richer and deeper relationships for years to come.

US consumers apparently not that bothered about 5G

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Glenn Edens, professor at Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University, previously a vice president at PARC, observed, There is a good chance by 2025 society will have forgotten all about the current crisis. A key question is, how soon do we find a viable vaccine and how long does it take to put that into production, and when does it become part of the annual flu-season vaccine? If for some reason a vaccine and treatment continue to be elusive, then all bets are off for recovery by 2025.

In late 2019, many executives were thinking about how the business cycle might end and how to downshift in a way that conserved energy and speed for the next turn. In mid-2022, many executives are once again anticipating the end of the business cycle, albeit one that has been both distorted and extended by a once-in-a-century public-health emergency, commodity shocks, war in Europe, and so on.

But think about what he has. He has eight time zones, a burning tundra that will not freeze again naturally, a situation where he has a lot of oil and gas, but he is trying to find his place in the world between China and the West.

The notion of a global contest around 5G and the involvement of external nations in the circulation of disinformation also points to a wider geopolitical struggle around communications infrastructure. In closing, we suggest that this could present a new trajectory for communications research, one where the field engages more closely with international affairs. Indeed, recent Australian scholarship has addressed these geopolitical tensions either directly or indirectly. Wanning Sun and Haiqing Yu (2016), for example, have examined the use of Chinese social media platforms in Australia, and colleagues at Queensland University of Technology are starting to examine disinformation (Bruns, 2020; Bruns, Harrington and Hurcombe, 2020). This suggests that there is scope for the discipline to be more meaningfully involved in wider interdisciplinary discussions and public policy debates about how communications intersect with these international currents.

I like how I had to google Verizon cell outage to figure out why my phone suddenly couldn't make or receive calls because #Verizon couldn't be bothered to notify their customers that the network was down. Super awesome customer service right there.

But we also have to honestly confront tough questions about the national security consequences of doing business in a country controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. That especially goes for companies that develop some of our most sensitive technology, as many do here in this region.

We also have a lot of other conversations, a lot of trade issues. There are issues between those two countries that I want to hear about and try and make sure that both South Korea and Japan are figuring their way through their relationship together as well.

It would make since that they should be able to wirelessly send updates to update the system...or to do a fix for those who are utilizing the services. Updating a hard drive/computer in a system should be quite easy to do as there are lots of companies doing this! The answer, which was provided in an email today about utilizing the awful app as an alternative is not innovative at all! INVEST in your people who have purchased their vehicles, still drive them and are STILL paying for your services!! The fact that stolen vehicle tracking will not be available, and the remote services is DEVASTATING! Its bad enough the maps dont really update as they should

My annual plan for my 2014 Buick Encore ends on 7/26/2022. Using the VIN check tool, I am told that my vehicle is no longer connected. I was not pleased about the dongle solution but was happy that GM / Onstar was going to offer it. I have zero use for the Guardian app by itself, and will just not renew my plan. If I have to use my phone, I can just say " Hey google call 911" or whatever. No need for the app.

OnStar apparently reneged on its promise to provide converters for 2G transceivers in GM's pre-2015 cars. Even though statistics from the Bureau of Transportation shows the average age of cars and light trucks on the road remains over 10 years old, and used car sales are about 70% of total car sales annually. I'm not sure how many of those cars are pre-2015, but it sure comes across as a slap in the face. OnStar is pulling the plug on us at some point in December (the person I spoke with at OnStar this morning could not give me a date -- so I'm forced to assume we'll be connected through November). Then they have the stones to want to charge $15 a month for an app that has almost no value proposition.In my view, the dongle (or whatever it was) was better than leaving us with an app that fails to distinguish itself from offerings from insurance companies (apart from its outrageous fee). I was an AVID supporter of OnStar's service and got to see its benefit first-hand when my wife was injured in an accident years ago. But this -- CHOOSING to leave us without an integrated solution -- is nothing short of CALLOUS. I will very strongly consider this in future purchasing/leasing decisions.

The problem apparently comes down not to whether the phone itself has the technology to support HD Voice but whether AT&T has "whitelisted" it. Android Police wrote that "AT&T only whitelists a small number of handsets it directly sells to customers for 4G voice calling, and it looks like even identical non-carrier phones don't necessarily work with the carrier's HD Voice service, like the aforementioned Galaxy S10E. Depending on how many handsets are incompatible, this email might have gone out to a significant amount of subscribers."

In the AT&T support forum, one customer wrote, "It's pretty tone-deaf to urge people to buy a new phone during an economic crisis. It's also worth noting that many of the affected phones (such as my Nokia 6.1) support HD Voice; AT&T just hasn't bothered to whitelist them." The Nokia 6.1 uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 processor, which supports Voice over LTE.

Update at 4:25pm ET: AT&T provided Ars a statement in which it apologized for the confusing email to customers. "This email was one of many planned to keep customers informed about the shutdown of our 3G network in early 2022," AT&T said. "It should have included the date that certain devices would no longer be supported. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused and will be more clear in future updates." AT&T did not answer our questions about how many people the email went to and why it apparently went to some customers who have 4G phones that support HD Voice.

I do not envy the Fed for what it must do next: The stronger the recovery, the higher the rates that follow (I believe that this could be significantly higher than the markets expect) and the stronger the quantitative tightening (QT). If the Fed gets it just right, we can have years of growth, and inflation will eventually start to recede. In any event, this process will cause lots of consternation and very volatile markets. The Fed should not worry about volatile markets unless they affect the actual economy. A strong economy trumps market volatility.

Still, if you're used to the high-end smartphones, you're definitely going to notice a lag in performance over time, so maybe reconsider those savings for device that will last you a bit longer. And if you really care about the stylus experience, the Moto G Stylus 5G is a poor alternative to the vastly more expensive Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. At the end of the day, this phone is only $100 less than the Pixel 6, but it feels like it should cost less. Unless you need a stylus in this price range, the Pixel 6 is a much better purchase. We've dropped the review score one point based on our extended testing, to 7.5/10.

Many of the conspiracy theories circulating today seek to explain the pandemic itself. A study published in October by van der Linden and colleagues presented residents from the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Spain, and Mexico with statements that contained common misinformation and facts about COVID-19.

The Kremlin also has a wealth of knowledge on the West, but views much of it through the prism of ideology. This often causes Russian leaders to leap to the wrong conclusions, even if their reasoning is based on accurate information: for example, they often see the European Union as a lapdog of the US, and assume that a more independent union would be much friendlier towards Russia. Things are at their worst when it comes to post-Soviet states: Russian policymakers have many passions about, but little expertise on, these countries. This is partly because, until the 1990s (or later, in some cases), Russian universities did not deal with them as foreign nations. 2ff7e9595c