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Most of the coverage is going to be 800/700/600 Mhz stuff that will have the same problem of peak hours congestion as LTE. The 5G pipedream is based on an assum
by ugjka 5y ago
Most of the coverage is going to be 800/700/600 Mhz stuff that will have the same problem of peak hours congestion as LTE. The 5G pipedream is based on an assumption that telcos could possibly afford to litter every inhabited place with shitload of HF base stations
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoBy the way, HF does stand for high frequency, but it's actually the 3 to 30Mhz band. 5G mmWave would be the SHF and low EHF bands. (Super high/extremely high)
- giantrobot 5y ago5G also provides better spacial efficiency over LTE besides the spectral efficiency. So even without a forest of towers it'll provide better peak congestion performance than LTE. At the same time microcells/nanocells are more practical with 5G allowing companies to increase capacity in especially high traffic areas. For instance a couple high-band cells in popular public spaces. With LTE the only equivalent option was a lower power microcell that affected and was affected by nearby full sized cells. There's plenty of marketing dreck and hype around 5G but there's also a lot of good engineering and real capability improvements over previous cellular systems.