Yes, for the first couple of years 5G will be a marketing thing (5 is more than 4, so it _must_ be better). It helps manufacturers sell more devices and telcos

Yes, for the first couple of years 5G will be a marketing thing (5 is more than 4, so it _must_ be better). It helps manufacturers sell more devices and telcos to convince people to upgrade their plan. My opinion is that we don't really need 5G for portable devices (phones, tablets, etc). I'd like to argue that there are no services that would benefit from the higher bandwidth and lower latency that 5G offers over 4G. 5G does have benefits for stuff like IOT, but not for mobile devices imo. The current pricing schemes of telcos also don't make sense with the bandwidth capabilities of 5G. I have a 'premium' plan with 10GB of data per month, with 4G I can (in theory) already deplete that 10GB in 80 seconds. With 5G I could theoretically deplete that in less than 10 seconds.