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.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    FTA:

    “Then, it (Verizon) tried to sell us on low-band 5G, which actually turned out to be slower than 4G in some cases. The company is now slowly converting its existing network into standalone 5G as it lights up mid-band spectrum, but that’s a yearslong effort.”

    This is why I have a 5G phone and a “5G” connection, but my speeds are shit.

    14.9 down, 0.13 up.

    • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      It’s true, I guess they only built the “5G” towers to have the name alone, figuring customers would want the latest and greatest. It’s worked, most people I see are using 5G even though every 5G network I’ve tested has yielded about the results you describe, 15mbps while I can easily get 30+ via 4glte standing in the same spot.