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And yet here in 2022 cell reception quality is quite literally worse than it was in 2010. Telecommunications industry is really baffling at times. Just like whe

And yet here in 2022 cell reception quality is quite literally worse than it was in 2010. Telecommunications industry is really baffling at times. Just like when people were excited for 5G, I'm very skeptical that this technology will ever actually improve our lives in the short to medium term. Overall, services across the board seem to be worse than they were 10 years ago. And yet the tech is certainly more advanced. Really disappointed as a whole with the telecommunications industry. Maybe that's the field I should have focused more on, as they seem to be struggling to improve things even with technological breakthroughs such as this. Just a shame.

adzm 4y ago
I'm sure this varies by region, since anecdotally reception and bandwidth is significantly improved everywhere I've been in the past 10 years.
- surfpel 4y ago
  Pretty rare for me to see it below 50mbps. Usually around 200 or above.
- ROTMetro 4y ago
  This. Rural Rocky Mountains here and in the last year 5g has made service exponentially better.
anigbrowl 4y ago
[citation needed]
TreeRingCounter 4y ago
ckosidows 4y ago
MKBHD recently shared the same sentiment in a video. He feels, anecdotally, that 5G is worse than LTE. I feel the same way and recently switched my preferred network to LTE. You might find a better experience doing the same. I've found 5G to be truly awful and I live in one of the biggest cities in America where you would expect better infrastructure.
- kart23 4y ago
  5G is better in some usecases. LTE gets destroyed at sporting events or festivals, while 5G can support more devices and faster speeds.
qwertywert_ 4y ago
This is 1 point-to-point link (laser) with direct aim required. No forwarding, no more than 1 user. I don't see how this relates to the use-case of millions of broadband users that you are talking about where you are routing fiber cables all over the place. We do have 800-gigabit fiber in core networks, we just don't route it to every home b/c why would we. And 5G radiates to 1000s of users simultaneously.. regularly getting multi-gigabit speeds on mmWave as a regular user is pretty amazing to me.
midoridensha 4y ago
>Overall, services across the board seem to be worse than they were 10 years ago. Do you live in the US? The pathetic state of telecoms in the US is a US problem, not a global problem. In many other places, our internet and cellular service is fast and cheap. But you guys don't like regulation or competition, so this is what you get.

adzm 4y ago

I'm sure this varies by region, since anecdotally reception and bandwidth is significantly improved everywhere I've been in the past 10 years.

surfpel 4y ago
Pretty rare for me to see it below 50mbps. Usually around 200 or above.
ROTMetro 4y ago
This. Rural Rocky Mountains here and in the last year 5g has made service exponentially better.

anigbrowl 4y ago

[citation needed]

TreeRingCounter 4y ago

ckosidows 4y ago

MKBHD recently shared the same sentiment in a video. He feels, anecdotally, that 5G is worse than LTE. I feel the same way and recently switched my preferred network to LTE. You might find a better experience doing the same. I've found 5G to be truly awful and I live in one of the biggest cities in America where you would expect better infrastructure.

kart23 4y ago
5G is better in some usecases. LTE gets destroyed at sporting events or festivals, while 5G can support more devices and faster speeds.

qwertywert_ 4y ago

This is 1 point-to-point link (laser) with direct aim required. No forwarding, no more than 1 user. I don't see how this relates to the use-case of millions of broadband users that you are talking about where you are routing fiber cables all over the place. We do have 800-gigabit fiber in core networks, we just don't route it to every home b/c why would we. And 5G radiates to 1000s of users simultaneously.. regularly getting multi-gigabit speeds on mmWave as a regular user is pretty amazing to me.

midoridensha 4y ago

>Overall, services across the board seem to be worse than they were 10 years ago. Do you live in the US? The pathetic state of telecoms in the US is a US problem, not a global problem. In many other places, our internet and cellular service is fast and cheap. But you guys don't like regulation or competition, so this is what you get.