The Baylor Lariat - The official student news source by Samantha Bradsky
Personal devices using the 5G network could cause a national crisis.
In the world of consumerism and commercial technology, the spectrum impacts many consumer devices. What many fail to recognize are the other industries competing with personal devices to use the spectrum as well.
According to SDxCentral, the 5G spectrum refers to the fifth-generation network of radio frequencies. Baylorâs website refers to the spectrum as constituting âall available frequencies for wireless communication between devices with applications for radio and television broadcasts, RADAR, GPS, cellular voice and data service.â
Charles Baylis â professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the wireless and microwave circuits systems program â said to imagine the wireless spectrum as real estate. Each phone using 5G wireless acquires some of this real estate. While the demand for the spectrum increases, the real estate of the spectrum remains a finite resource….
