The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

11 | The IFP -H alton H ills | T hursday,June 25,2020 theifp.ca Georgetown's trusted choice for hearing care 360 Guelph St., Unit 44 Georgetown (In the Knolcrest Centre) 905.877.8828 Armstrong Ave Delrex Blvd Try before you buy! At Halton Audiometric Centre, we are committed to your hearing healthcare. To find out if hearing aids are right for you, come in for a complimentary assessment and try the latest digital hearing aids risk free! Halton Hills for NOMINATING us for Best Butcher / Meat Shop!! Thank you We would like to invite you to try Agram's, you will not be disappointed.Come and see how eating natural, wholesome,homemade products is the way life should be lived. Call ahead and we will have everything waiting for you 905-877-6082905-877-608210676 Trafalgar Road S.Georgetown Downloading a movie to a smartphone used to take 26 hours on the 3G network, but new technology in Halton Hills could reduce that time to mere seconds. The Town of Halton Hills has an agree- ment in place for the construction of 5G in- frastructure expected to come online in 2020.In June 2019, Rogers Communications approached the Town with a proposal to con- struct new infrastructure to support a future 5G network. The proposal outlined two phas- es to the rollout: six small cell units would be installed in the first phase on Town-owned street lights along Guelph St. between Sin- clair Ave. and Delrex Blvd., followed by mi- cro and macro towers on Town-owned land in the second phase. The small cell units are housed in metal boxes about 20 cm by 20 cm by 15 cm and at- tached to lamp posts. These units are de- signed to boost cell coverage in the sur- rounding area by about 100 to 200 metres. In the second phase, the installation of towers would comply with the Town's Proto- col for Establishing Telecommunication Towers and Related Facilities, which would include a site plan review, as well as a public consultation process for any tower within proximity to a residential or school area. Macro towers provide wider coverage and would stand between 15 and 60 metres. All towers and devices must comply with Health Canada's standard as prescribed by Safety Code 6, a regularly reviewed guideline for protection against all known potentially harmful health effects. The new 5G technology would increase data delivery, improve connectivity, and re- duce dead zones for Rogers mobile custom- ers. A report from Town staff to council not- ed "movies that used to take 26 hours to download on 3G, and six minutes on 4G, will now take four seconds to download through 5G." On top of better, faster service for cell- phone users, the new tech would help to sup- port the use of autonomous vehicles, 'smart' metering, and enhanced services for first-re- sponders. Phase one is expected to begin this year. NEWS 5G COMING TO HALTON HILLS BRYAN MYERS bmyers@metroland.com 5G infrastructure from Rogers is anticipated in Halton Hills in 2020. Town of Halton Hills photo