With all the major telecommunication companies endlessly talking about 5G. What kind of new job opportunties do you think there will be? I've read that security jobs will become increasingly important, and demands will be high. What type of engineering or non-engineering jobs do you think will be positively or negatively impacted by 5G development. Share your thoughts.
Plenty of litigation roles around false advertising.
Zero. Why wouldn’t a customer just get fiber?
Rural areas or areas with non-competes.
They don’t want to roll it out in rural areas lol
I hear there are a fair number of sales roles open for selling subscriber location data without their consent.
Super low latency may be a game changer for companies and solutions that may not exist yet except in the brains of some brilliant people (like timing the next billion dollar company / idea)
Fiber....
https://www.lightreading.com/the-edge/all-major-tower-companies-are-sniffing-around-edge-computing/d/d-id/749035?piddl_msgid=295408#msg_295408 The addition of American Tower to Packet's partner roster has not been previously disclosed. The tower company did not immediately respond to requests for more information about its edge computing efforts, but the company's CEO hinted at such actions in October: "Our sites can act as a convergence point for the wireless access network, cloud services, the Internet of Things and enterprise networks. We are currently engaged in discussions with players in numerous industries that may ultimately be edge compute tenants and expect to further explore the potential long-term opportunity going forward," American Tower's James Taiclet said Indeed, American Tower counts a total of 57,000 tower sites around the US, and each one could potentially supply the power, fiber and real estate necessary to run an edge computing data site. And those sites could power the kind of speedy computing services that wireless operators might want to sell to consumers, enterprises and others in a 5G world -- which is likely why American Tower isn't the only tower company investing in edge computing technologies.
I don't understand the hype around edge computing at cell towers. Isn't this essentially the same tech as a cdn? This is a solved problem.
Except that it isn't
Generally, new technologies will cause centralization like current cloud providers and their data centers and POPs at all major internet ingress/egress facilities. Edge computing may move cloud elements back out to the edge of the network where compute is potentially as close as the nearest tower. These tower companies are investigating bringing the power and fiber necessary to put pocket data center capabilities close to the users where brand new network applications could emerge to drive new businesses that do not exist yet.
Backhaul engineering will always be big with 5G, small cells, edge computing. RF Engineering will always be viable with more and more bands being used and complex wireless technologies being implemented such as self healing networks. IP Network Engineering will always be big at Telcos but orchestration and automation could keep the numbers level. Network Security, IOT security, Application Security, infrastructure security is where a lot of growth will be for Telecom. Application development will still be a huge growth driver at Telcos for staff.
I'm really not seeing the point of 5G. Ultimately there are no tangible applications of 5G right now that are in the works and will for sure make money. The only application I see today is related to gaming or AR/VR but to make those applications valuable, you will need much more than 5 or 10 machines in a shed somewhere at your edge sites. I'd be willing to bet that 90%+ 4G users just stream video/music, browse web, and send messages. None of those things require or will be enhanced by 5G and the majority of customers won't be able to tell the difference. I could see getting cheaper unlimited 4g plans being pretty valuable. I could also see increasing or adding coverage in rural areas like Africa or rural Europe being pretty valuable. But 5G for customers who have no use for it? Nope.
Lol rural areas. Dude they want to roll it out in big cities only, who have fiber already. So to your point..what’s the point
People will always find a way to use more days and want lowered latency.
How’s the work culture in Verizon?
Which department? Generally speaking, not too bad. It's a corporate culture, which I imagine you would know about since you are at Wells Fargo.
How is the TC?