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As what appears usual for tech things, 5G is a gigantic bag of things that can be ridden like a marketing horse. AT&T already atop with "5G E" being regular LTE but they added more bandwidth to their network. So many news articles and "professors" are masturbating crazy about new speeds, which almost no one cares about. The new speeds are for metropolitan residents only, so those dialup modem rural lurkers are still no better. For many LTE is already faster than their WiFi and as long as YouTube and Netflix play with no pauses no one will notice, especially as like the slows times I see when reading Google News or whatever are basically due to regular DoS on new links and whatever agency being unable to scale up their servers. Hopefully it will lead to cheaper US data plans, but the high prices there are not really due to technology. The one big gain I see is that the radio can now go beyond single duplex, thus in metropolitan areas you can actually get service when full bars are showing, instead of being dead in NYC which was common for a long time before they installed new towers anyway. The chipset side is rather interesting, you have a monopoly from Qualcomm apparently on the latest and greatest, and 3-4 year development gap (according to some news articles) with Intel, Samsung, and allegedly Huawei following. Huawei have absolutely zero products but have gone for the sensible just modify LTE chipset approach in order to support the typical China landscape, but the others targeting millimeter wave, because it is so amazeballs, but leads to physically larger devices, which clearly is going to be an issue. * Everything quoted is "according to some news articles", idk.
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Needs the commercial smarts of not making it reusable though, need to rake in money for each and every drop.
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