So the FCC lets 5G be

Time marches on, and so does technology: the Federal Communications Division is in the final steps to begin developing deployment methods for fifth generation wireless services. 5G wireless is not as much a pipe dream as it might sound, as the five-member executive board of the FCC has agreed to move forward on research into 5G wireless deployment research. The crux of the matter involves investigating methods for broadcasting at 24 Ghz or higher frequencies and how to license the technology, and there are still many hoops that need to be jumped through before the first forays into 5G deployment, which is estimated to occur first on a trial basis in 2018 and a broader rollout in 2020. Research into high-speed data transfer in the 28 Ghz range has already been conducted by Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung, which yielded speeds of 7.5 Gbps in stationary locations and 1.2 Gbps in moving vehicles; this is far and above the theoretical 300 Mbps top speed of LTE and the 1 Gbps upward limit of the current 902.11ac Wi-Fi standard. 5G is looking to be a huge step up from 4G, but enough about that because a group of scientists led by Dr. Radoslaw Poleski of Ohio State University and Warsaw University Observatory of Poland discovered an ice giant planet that looks like Uranus (the planet, not the body part). The extrasolar thing is about 25,000 light years away from Earth, and its inhabitants (if there are any) won't be getting 5G services anytime soon.