On April 16, Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, issued a draft gild approving the usage of 50-Band radio frequencies for 5G and IoT.

Controversy

Previously, three leaders of Congressional defense committees signed a letter urging president Trump to forestall the commission from issuing the approval. The controversy arises from the fact that the side by side bands are used for the Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) which provide essential functionality for the mod military. Chairman Pai assured in his draft order that the approval volition not jeopardise proper functioning of the GPS, while making:

"...more efficient use of underused spectrum and promote the deployment of 5G and Cyberspace of Things services."

New opportunities for blockchain

The mobile-first trend has not escaped the blockchain manufacture. There are several blockchain projects focused on such devices, like Hyperledger Iroha, Celo, IOTA (MIOTA), and Nodle Network. Nodle's blockchain architect, Eliott Teissonniere, explained to Cointelegraph how this determination could help this industry grow:

"Having a defended ring for 5G and IoT volition open up new use cases that we simply couldn't imagine earlier. This being coupled with the increase of computational ability available in any IoT devices (at the edge) will brand it possible to enable IoT devices being more tightly linked to an existing blockchain solution. In the most term, we could even imagine minor IoT devices embedding a total featured light client with little to no performance touch on. All of this has the potential to lead to the democratization of Blockchain for IoT."

Kadan Stadelmann, CTO of Komodo multi-concatenation platform, told Cointelegrpah:

"If I, for example, know that on my mobile device I could sink the Bitcoin blockchain in a day. Something that takes me ii days now and possibly even on my server. I call back that's going to be a huge jump because we can really start focusing a lot on the actual technological implementation and not on the underlying physical limitations or protocol limitations like bandwidth limitation."

Although the latest evolution may not accept an immediate impact on the blockchain industry, it may somewhen impact the community's long-term development goals.