Mobile industry looks ahead to 6G as 5G evolution continues
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5G networks won't have the capacity to cope by end of the decade
  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    He added that it takes about three to five years to fully roll out a new mobile generation.

    It’s been 5 years already. I’m sitting in my office right now at 36mbps and 200ms latency on 5g+. Meanwhile, if you go a mile north of me, you drop down to 4g and doing anything on the internet becomes impossible.

    I’m pretty sure AT&T just changed the numbers from 4g to 5g and called it a day.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      11 months ago

      That’s actually kind of what happened…

      The threshold for a new generation is something that was supposed to be standardized long ago.

      But cell companies couldn’t develop it as fast as they wanted to sell new phones.

      That’s why there was a bunch of 4Gs, and then they all agreed to call something 5g when it didn’t meet the thresholds for a new generation.

      There’s still a huge increase in speed for early adopters, but only because the new one isn’t full of people yet.

      So everyone is tricked into thinking the upgrade is worth it, but within a few months it’s the same speed as the last one.

      It’s really something that needs more regulation. Unfortunately those companies make a lot of donations to both parties to prevent that sort of thing.

      • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I’m not surprised at all. They were already doing it with 4g too…

        Hopefully, now that the FCC no longer has that gelded fuckwad running it, maybe they can bring these assholes to heel again.

        Doubtful, but maybe.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          11 months ago

          Well, the new head of FCC is the person who was the head a decade ago when the fuckery with 4g started…

          So I’d be surprised if she stops it now

          I hope she does, I’d just be surprised

            • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              11 months ago

              She seemed decent from her Wikipedia, and weirdly enough her brother is the drummer from Guster.

              But yeah, I just don’t expect her to fix this issue specifically when she’s the one that let it get out of control in the first place.

    • grayman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      There’s control plane sms data plane. You can upgrade the control plane without the data plane. That’s what every carrier did. You had to before you could get the data plane improvements. Those improvements turned out to be expensive, so they didn’t happen in most areas.