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>"And again, what is all of this for? Faster downloads of instagram photos? I don't get it. How about starting with infrastructure projects that matter like fib

>"And again, what is all of this for? Faster downloads of instagram photos? I don't get it. How about starting with infrastructure projects that matter like fiber - some people in the US only have DSL as an option..." It's all about latency. Current 4G tech is ~50ms at best. 5G is <5ms. That opens up a whole new class of real time applications for mobile devices. Not to mention that omnipresent 5G would obliviate the need for residential fiber and be much cheaper/easier to deploy at scale.

VHRanger 6y ago
Talk to me when my mobile plan has unlimited data. Until then I can only see 5G hype as pure marketing from the telecom industry.
gsich 6y ago
The latency advertisement in 5G is only the latency between your device and the base station you are connected to. LTE is already in the <10ms area, so expect a real world latency improvement of about ~5ms.