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What's the point? So instead of hitting the 22GB shadowcap on my "unlimited" plan in 70 minutes at my usual 40mb/s I can do it in four minutes and eleven secon
by Causality1 7y ago
What's the point? So instead of hitting the 22GB shadowcap on my "unlimited" plan in 70 minutes at my usual 40mb/s I can do it in four minutes and eleven seconds at 700mb/s 5G speeds. Meanwhile I still can't even check e-mail or send a Whatsapp message when I visit my grandmother out in the boonies. 5G is breathtakingly unnecessary.
- rhexs 7y agoI have the same reservations. What impetus is there to compete against entrenched cartels/monopolies? Inevitably 5G will have the same 1TB cap Comcast invented in order to juice profits off the death of cable television. LTE had the same promise. Best case 5G takes off, media conglomerates attempt to purchase/merge with new ISPS/old telecoms rolling out 5G, the government inevitably doesn't enforce antitrust, and we're in the exact same place we're at now.