Cellular Services. Describe your deployment plans for 5G network coverage across the U.S. 1. Expected Role of 5G in your overall network architecture. We would like to understand where 5G “fits” in your overall network strategy. For example, do you see 5G as: a. A wholesale upgrade for 4G LTE services in the wide area, b. A high-capacity local distribution solution for a 4G wide area network, c. Some combination of the two, d. A fixed wireless solution for business or residential Internet access, e. Something else entirely? We expect to see a whole new class of applications and solutions that will be built for nationwide 5G. Ultimately, it will allow today’s applications to just work better and faster. As with prior network innovations, we can’t fully imagine all of the new applications that will emerge. But emerge they will. • Imagine Augmented Reality heads-up displays that see everything you do, and provide you with real-time, cloud-driven information about the people and objects around you. • Imagine an earpiece that provides natural language translations in real-time as a friend speaks to you at natural-speed in any language. • Imagine never losing anything ever again because you can embed low-cost sensors with decade long battery life — then imagine how everything being trackable affects thefts! • Imagine environmental sensors embedded in the infrastructure —mixed into the asphalt on new smart highways that intelligently route traffic, update road signs, notify road crews when repairs are required and emergency services when accidents occur! 2. Please provide the fundamental strategy you are following for deploying 5G technologies going forward. 3. Timetable and total percent of 5G coverage in each state. 4. Proposed Channel Sizes (in MHz) for macro area and small cell deployments 5. Frequency Band(s) to be used and primary applications for each.
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