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I wonder if, like 4G, it actually won't be 5G [1] [1] 2010 http://gizmodo.com/5680755/the-dirty-secret-of-todays-4g-its-not-4g http://gizmodo.com/5680755/the-d

• ksec 11y ago
  This time they have a clear path so that likely will not happen again. LTE as 4G, The original 4G is now LTE Advances which now some network call it 4.5G Many of the 5G tech are coming out in incremental releases. So 3GPP Rel 15 will be 5G Phase 1, and Rel 16 will be 5G Phase 2. There will be LTE Advance Pro, which provides all the features up to Rel 14. As a matter of fact most of the latency reduction will be done in Rel 14, it is likely they start calling Rel 14 as 5G and continue to evolve on it. And to be honest ( apart from T-Mobile I think ), LTE really do deserve the name 4G. It brings much faster access, and more importantly lower latency that feels so much faster when browsing the web. As most user will properly not notice a difference between 300Mbps and 600Mbps. Let alone 1Gbps. So really the biggest benefits of these new release are increase in Capacity of Mobile Network. Most Network operator today are facing the same problem.
  • the_mitsuhiko 11y ago
    > LTE really do deserve the name 4G. Indeed. I live in a rural area and until recently I was too far away to get reasonable broadband, so I switched to LTE exclusively and no that there is fiber I have no reason to downgrade yet since I'm quite alone in the cell. Stable and fast.
  • gozur88 11y ago
    >As most user will properly not notice a difference between 300Mbps and 600Mbps. Let alone 1Gbps. So really the biggest benefits of these new release are increase in Capacity of Mobile Network. Do you know if there's a latency difference? LTE is has pretty low latency compared to earlier standards, but compared to wired internet it's still garbage.
    • ksec 11y ago
      Sorry I should have been clear about it. Yes. Part of the 5G Goal is sub 1ms latency. You will get most of the Latency improvement in 3GPP Rel 14. So in real world, assuming the route between your Wired ISP and Mobile Network are the same, the latency difference on 5G should be less then 10ms max.
• dghughes 11y ago
  Sounds more like it's 4F.
• jakub_g 11y ago
  Anecdata: long long time ago (~2005), living in central Europe, I used to use a direct-connect p2p client where you could connect to the "hubs", see the members and see the actual file lists of those members. I quickly learnt that Swedish hubs and people with [Telia] prefix in their nick were the best bets - getting stuff from them was like downloading on a LAN. I believe those guys are able to deliver it.
  • johansch 11y ago
    Hehe. And we (Swedes) felt the opposite when getting connected to people from the rest of Europe. :) (I'm only slightly confused that you learned to recognize the Telia prefix rather than the B2/BBB/Bredbandsbolaget prefix. Telia was predominantly ADSL with like 15/1 and B2 was Ethernet with either 100/10 or 10/10.)
    • Strom 11y ago
      From my experience, Telia was always known as quality, and BBB as the lowest tier crap. The routing quality difference was huge. Although yes, the Telia connections were business/edu class.
      • johansch 11y ago
        Strange. BBB actually (sorry, I simplied above) had two types of customers, ADSL and Fiber/Ethernet. Maybe the routing to eastern Europe was different. Hmm, actually: I do know that Telia Networks invested quite a lot in eastern Europe during the past two decades. Perhaps what you were seeing was a result of that.
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• digi_owl 11y ago
  Well the whole G thing is marketing spiel for the masses. To me it will always be GSM, UMTS, LTE, etc.