The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill
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The flashiest use cases are still a fantasy.

The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo…::AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile’s race to deploy 5G has failed to realize its flashiest outcomes while saddling carriers with debt and removing a competitor from the market.

  • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    I mean it is more about the bandwidth I would say. Usually I get about 40 Mbps on 4g and 300 on 5g so it is a massive difference but once more people switch to it, it would drop down a lot just like 4g did. But at the end of the day its still an upgrade from 4g, can’t say too much on your surrounding myself but the tech itself is still impressive.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Usually I get about 40 Mbps on 4g and 300 on 5g

      Yeah that’s pretty crap. AFAIK the record (for an actual speed test, not just a theoretical one) is 2.6Gbps and that was set a decade ago. On 4G. With Sprint by the way.

      That was obviously ideal conditions. But a good 4G connection can easily run at 300.

      • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        That’s obviously the point I made, you would never even get close to the max speeds when you are not the sole person using but as the max speed improves so does the average experience. It would be pretty naive to even expect anything close to max speed for a consumer, if that was your expectations then you will always be disappointed.

      • CmdrShepardEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        They’re saying when you have 10000 people sharing the same tower, your speeds will be better on 5G than on 4G. I have definitely noticed an improvement here at events like concerts or conventions where an assload of people are all in one location using their phones. Previously you’d be lucky to check your email while now you can still stream a video for example.