5G: US is off to the races
![Double Rainbow kind of day](https://wireless.engineering.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/doube-rainbow-updated.jpg)
Combined with the White House’s Advanced Wireless Research Initiative to spend $400 million over the next seven years to research and develop next-generation wireless technologies, last Friday was a “double rainbow” kind of day, as millimeter wave technology pioneer and NYU Wireless founding director Ted Rappaport put it. There’s all kinds of reasons for celebration, not the least of which is all this millimeter wave band spectrum. If all goes as planned, it should provide an innovation playground for entrepreneurs and skilled engineers to create all those things we can’t even imagine today.
Rappaport has noted this before and it’s worth repeating: The pace at which the FCC moved on this proceeding is nothing short of remarkable. There were a lot of complicated moving parts and difficult questions during the proceeding.