What does 5g really mean? When we're talking about telecommunications, 5g literally means fifth generation technology standard.

This is a next generation of how we're gonna get our next cat videos or whatever it is we wanna watch because there's this high demand for data.

We're consuming so much data and of course, the market wants to give it to us, so we got to get faster at it. So this 5th gen technology is supposed to get us closer to that and allow us to download more videos, whatever it is we're watching.

The interesting part is that this happens over our existing cell network. They're not really necessarily building out any new cell networks. I mean, we did recently go through an auction where t-mobile mainly was the main winner that bought some of our 600 megahertz chunk of spectrum. We're talking about an rf spectrum and so around in the 600 megahertz area, but normally cell operators are operating their systems in 1. 2 and higher ranges.

As a side note - I saw something come across where 6 gig might start becoming of interest here. Criss - not to, interrupt, but only because we have 15 minutes and I do want to get as much information into our viewers as possible.

A lot of things you said right there might start popping up questions, red flags, ideas, concerns for our viewers. We know that 5g is merely just a word. Like calling your daughter julie.

5th generation. What does it stand for? You were just speaking to it. It's a moment on a rf hertz schedule. Okay, on a scale you could say.

Let's talk about this scale because 5g is just merely a name, within this scale. This scale is the rf waveform scale. The hertz - what is that? The kilohertz to gigahertz scale, right?

Maybe I should show you real quick what that looks like. Why don't we go ahead - show us what this means? Because I think ultimately we need to understand this scale so that people understand that radio frequencies - rf - when we say rf - radio frequencies - are here on... By the way, criss, where the radio from?

That's kind of like saying - where does air come from? I guess it's an innate thing here. The cool thing is a radio wave. Maybe this will better describe it.

A radio wave itself, it's electro-magnetic radiation. There's no doubt about it. It travels at roughly the speed of light.

It certainly travels in outer space much better than it does here on the planet earth because it gets attenuated over distance. There's two components of this - an electrical wave and a magnetic wave.