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5G is mostly an advertising gimmick at this point. I've studied the 5G engineering documentation and there are some good ideas in there but it's not going to gi
by dreamcompiler 6y ago
5G is mostly an advertising gimmick at this point. I've studied the 5G engineering documentation and there are some good ideas in there but it's not going to give most consumers anything fundamentally better than what they have now, even when it's built out. And even then it won't help rural consumers get better internet. And since it's coming from the cell providers everybody expects they'll just game it as yet another monopolistic revenue extraction tool.
Contrast with Starlink which will help rural consumers get better internet and introduce real competition into the marketplace, and the advantage is clear.