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Tech businesses ready to jump on Huntsville’s 5G network




HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – When it comes to internet in Huntsville, folks have a need for speed. 

The city just approved an agreement to bring some of the fastest mobile network speeds to town. Locals say getting 5G will make things easier for people across the board, from kids doing their homework to the elderly being able to easily talk to their doctor from home.

It could make the lives of tech business people a whole lot easier.

Huntsville’s been named as one of the top cities competing with Silicon Valley for tech entrepreneurs. How do you speed it up to the top? Speed up the mobile network to one of the fastest in the country.  

“I thought 5G was like this futuristic thing that wasn’t coming for another five years to a decade, but now it’s here,” said Ben East with CommentSold. “It’s kind of shocking.”

Commentsold works entirely online so speeding up the internet means speeding up productivity.

“Voice chatting, it will cut out a lot and that’s super annoying so having a stronger internet will make us more productive by letting us have more access with our people,” East said.

There won’t be any new, big cell towers. The company Uniti Fiber‘s “small cells” are the size of telephone poles and the dozen or so going up around the city by the end of this year will make 5G possible.

“This is an extremely fast experience for the user,” said Harrison Diamond, Huntsville’s business relations officer. “It’s gonna be like you’re in your house and you have the same speed as you do at home.”

And when you’re not at home and in a crowded place with bad service? Well that may be a thing of the past.

“Because it’s an older building we had to actually bring some internet into it to be able to keep up with all of the data that was going to be consumed,” said Carly Seldon with Urban Engine, talking about a past event.

“So with 5G you won’t have to worry about that?” WZDX News asked.

“Hopefully not!” she replied

The network is expected to help businesses and locals. Officials say it also sets the stage for future technologies like autonomous vehicles and cloud computing.



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