The biggest thing with 5g is mmWave, which has wifi-like range and requires line-of-site access to your phone, but delivers multi-gigabit speeds. However, if you're not downtown in a major metropolitan area and literally within sight-lines of a mmWave antenna, you're using basically just a more expensive version of 4g when your phone says it's 5g.
So, why the push to a more expensive technology for no reason? Because it allows networks to finally deprecate and take down their much slower 2g and 3g networks and allows carriers to unify their network around a single family of standards. Also, OFDM means that you should be able to reduce interference and improve coverage by using multiple channels at the same time.
The advantages are huge for network operators, but not really visible to consumers, which is why it doesn't actually seem to be a very big deal for the individual person.
4ever :)
But really nobody knows, though if it’s anything like 3G it’ll be another 10 years before they start phasing it out, which will take 5-10 years
you will eat the bugs
you will have a 9 inch phone screen
you will use the amazon security camera
you will drain battery accessing unnecessary data transfer speeds that nobody even uses
It seems it’s main purpose is to pass on consumers cost of upgrades, and do internet everywhere for cars
It's the same bullshit as when they switched to 4g. The rollout was slow so they just started lying and saying you were using the new tech when you weren't. Most of the time "5g" is actually still just 4g.
I don't think it's fully rolled out yet in the US. There's a reason the US has been desperately trying to sabotage China's 5G rollout in many countries.
the US doesn't have the proper bands open for real 5g. It's alloted for military use last time i checked.
Yeah, it sucks. It has lower latency but I don't know what things needed that other than gaming, which I do not care about.
I turned it off on my pixel 6a cause it just drains battery like no other + overheats my phone.
i mean i'm not an expert, but i imagine a weak signal has less to do with the tech itself than with the slow rollout of easements for the telcos to get enough coverage.
I keep waiting for the mesh networking to take off but that seems like a hard problem for wireless. It's probably of little interest to the encumbered carriers too.
:I-was-saying: yall have been using 5g? i didn't think it released yet
