{"id":13875,"date":"2018-08-10T13:16:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T20:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2018-08-10T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T20:16:50","slug":"huawei-and-telus-test-fixed-5g-in-homes-paving-way-for-canadian-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=13875","title":{"rendered":"Huawei and Telus test fixed 5G in homes, paving way for Canadian rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<div>JEREMY HORWITZ@HORWITZ\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<time title=\"2018-02-14T15:05:44+00:00\" datetime=\"2018-02-14T15:05:44+00:00\">FEBRUARY 14, 2018 7:05 AM<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>Facing restrictions in the United States due to national security concerns, China\u2019s leading smartphone maker Huawei announced today that Canadian carrier\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huawei.com\/en\/press-events\/news\/2018\/2\/first-urban-5G-Wireless-Home-CPE-trial\">Telus is live-testing Huawei 5G equipment<\/a>\u00a0in Vancouver homes.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>The companies\u2019\u00a0in-home testing is said to be the first of its kind in North America, bringing 5G from the \u201clab to the living room\u201d and setting the stage for a future commercial launch of fixed 5G service in Canada.<\/h2>\n<article id=\"post-2323194\">According to Huawei, the tests are based on new wireless\u00a0Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), giving users a \u201cfiber-like experience with their home network.\u201d The CPE relies on\u00a028GHz mmWave frequency broadcasting, next-generation signaling technologies, and Massive MIMO antennas to deliver over 2Gbps speeds. Huawei expects that mmWave technology will enable cost-effective 5G coverage in neighborhoods and small communities, increasing accessibility for urban and suburban customers.<\/p>\n<p>The race to quickly deploy \u201cfixed 5G\u201d \u2014 in-home or in-business wireless service as a replacement for wired broadband \u2014 is now a two-country competition in North America.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/01\/23\/verizon-ceo-well-switch-to-5g-standard-when-its-final-but-wont-wait-for-it\/\">Verizon has announced plans<\/a>\u00a0to bring fixed 5G service to several U.S. cities this year, beginning with proprietary, non-standards compliant 5G hardware. By comparison,\u00a0Huawei says its CPE hardware complies with 3GPP\u2019s global 5G standard, though its footprint is currently limited to Telus employees and is not on the same city-wide scale as Verizon\u2019s 2018 rollout. Telus has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telus.com\/en\/about\/news-and-events\/media-releases\/successful-5g-pilot-places-canada-at-the-forefront-of-global-wireless\">previously said<\/a>\u00a0that it expects 5G to be commercially available in 2020, with Vancouver residents getting \u201cearly access\u201d to some 5G technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei\u2019s announcement comes as U.S. carriers and consumers are being actively warned by government agencies to avoid using Huawei cellular hardware based on security fears. Last month,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/01\/16\/u-s-security-concerns-could-stall-huaweis-and-ztes-5g-expansions\/\">members of Congress pushed carriers, including AT&amp;T<\/a>, to cut business ties with Huawei, and yesterday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/40530898\/six-u-s-intelligence-agencies-warn-against-using-huawei-phones\">six U.S. intelligence agencies<\/a>\u00a0told citizens not to use Huawei phones. Each of the Chinese manufacturers is said to have covert ties to China\u2019s government, allegedly putting the security of data transmitted through their mobile devices and networking gear at risk. As 5G is expected to be used in everything from autonomous cars and traffic systems to manufacturing plants and city infrastructures, the security threats posed by foreign governments could quickly go from abstract to tangible and major.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/02\/14\/huawei-and-telus-test-fixed-5g-in-homes-paving-way-for-canadian-rollout\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/02\/14\/huawei-and-telus-test-fixed-5g-in-homes-paving-way-for-canadian-rollout\/<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEREMY HORWITZ@HORWITZ\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0FEBRUARY 14, 2018 7:05 AM Facing restrictions in the United States due to national security concerns, China\u2019s leading smartphone maker Huawei announced today that Canadian carrier\u00a0Telus is live-testing Huawei 5G equipment\u00a0in Vancouver homes. The companies\u2019\u00a0in-home testing is said to be the first of its kind in North America, bringing 5G from the \u201clab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,357,127,17,103,28,492,3,430,598,434,139,517,43,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5g","category-5g-antenna","category-antenna","category-bc","category-canada","category-cell-tower","category-gnode","category-health_and_safety","category-huawei","category-living-lab-5g-antenna","category-millimeter-wave","category-telus","category-testbed","category-vancouver","category-wireless_devices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13876,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions\/13876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}