AT&T and Verizon will hold off on rolling out 5G within 2 miles of airports when the rest of their 5G networks go live Wednesday – a move lauded by the White House.

"As the nation’s leading wireless provider, we have voluntarily decided to limit our 5G network around airports," Verizon said Tuesday. "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and our nation’s airlines have not been able to fully resolve navigating 5G around airports, despite it being safe and fully operational in more than 40 other countries."

​AT&T expressed similar frustration.
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"At our sole discretion, we have voluntarily agreed to temporarily defer turning on a limited number of towers around certain airport runways as we continue to work with the aviation industry and the FAA to provide further information about our 5G deployment, since they have not utilized the two years they’ve had to responsibly plan for this deployment," an AT&T spokesperson said in a statement to USA TODAY. "We are launching our advanced 5G services everywhere else as planned with the temporary exception of this limited number of towers.”

AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile will put down 3G for good this year. Even if you don’t have a 3G phone anymore (and chances are you don’t), the technology most certainly changed your life 

The history of the world is divided into two eras:
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B3G (Before 3G): During this time, cellphones were primarily used for talking and texting. Sure, you could load a website but you could also snowshoe from New York to Alaska in the same amount of time.

CBE (Cellular Broadband Era): Once the heavens opened and the cell towers ushered in 3G, we got it all: speedy mobile web browsing, apps that let you summon a car (or burrito) to your door and an endless stream of selfies. And it only got faster as time went on.

Starting next month, the third-generation wireless networks that served as a rocket booster for the smartphone will be turned off forever.

Cisco is putting resources into augmented reality hologram technology for its Webex conferencing software.

The enterprise giant is betting that AR technology will gain momentum as companies adopt metaverse-style works.

It’s part of Webex’s strategy to regain market share, a key figure tells Insider.

The metaverse, commonly seen as a technology that allows people to communicate with each other in 3D-rendered virtual worlds, may seem like an unlikely investment area for Cisco, whose core business is networking hardware and software. But Cisco is betting that building its own version of the metaverse could be a secret weapon for its Webex conferencing tools, as it aims to regain market share by attracting new customers who want hyper-realistic workplace video conferencing.

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