This is very US centric way to look at things. US mobile carrier markets are not very competitive, so 5G brings little benefits to the consumers. The biggest d

This is very US centric way to look at things. US mobile carrier markets are not very competitive, so 5G brings little benefits to the consumers. The biggest difference in 5G parts that are extensions to existing LTE infrastructure is energy efficiency (80% of the energy is used in base stations) and cost of deploying massive capacity boost. It enables radically reduced total cost of ownership in urban areas and remote areas. Of course, if the mobile business is not competitive in your country, those benefits are not distributed to consumers as soon as in other countries. > Nothing about 5G changes the basic problem that the return on investment in rural areas is lousy because it has lower population Energy efficiency and sleeping base stations and solar panels powered stations. They definitely change the ROI for rural areas. More efficient and less dense macro sites in rural area will increase the coverage.