You're not wrong in the sense that 5G isn't actually that much of value for the users directly, however there are many other reasons that directly benefit the u

You're not wrong in the sense that 5G isn't actually that much of value for the users directly, however there are many other reasons that directly benefit the users. Telco's pay 2 big costs for running a cellular data network: Infrastructure and Spectrum licensing. Your cost of data is supposed to cover these two with an added profit for the telco. What 5G brings to the table is faster data, which means you are able to transfer you file quicker, which means the average spectrum usage per "facebook load" is lower since the transmission happens much faster. Instead of you occupying that spectrum for 30 sec while loading over GPRS, you instead fetch all the files in less than a second, making the average potential bandwidth in the network much higher for everyone, thus lowering the price per gigabyte. In addition to that, with 5G the phone can fetch data much more fast which means the radio can enter power-saving mode much faster. If a page on 4G takes 4 seconds to download and on 5G takes 1 second, it might end up being a 4X reduction (i'm stretching it for the sake of the example) due to the radio not having to be powered for that long. So the consumer wins on pricing and battery consumption while the networks can squeeze more out of the already occupied spectrum.