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Nitpick: mm-wave is just one of the dozen things that are in the 5G cornucopia of random technologies, it's not more or less "true 5G" than eg 5G edge computing
by fulafel 6y ago
Nitpick: mm-wave is just one of the dozen things that are in the 5G cornucopia of random technologies, it's not more or less "true 5G" than eg 5G edge computing.
- gabereiser 6y agoIn America 4>5 so we’ve appropriated “5G” to mean the mm-wave wireless transmission. There are still large pockets of the US on data caps as low as 10gb. Throttled connections. Asymmetric networks. All so we can be nickel and dimed to death on fees, privilege, bundles, and in some cases double paying for content.
- smichel17 6y agoIt's funny to me, reading "as low as 10gb". I used 45MB of data last month, and 9 of that was the Android OS. (And, yes, 4.33GB on wifi, of which 186MB was the OS). I know other people use their phones way more than I do, it's just a different world to me, where data limits are a thing to think about.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoI use at least 50gb of cellular and a few tb cable internet every month.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoI specified mm wave because regular 5g is about as good as 4g making the distinction worthless in practice. To actually benefit from 5g and justify the costs you'll need to be in one of the few cities with mm wave and have reasonable data usage agreements, which virtually no America can say they have both AFAIK. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G#Speed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G#Speed