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I think this message should have been at the top of the 5G marketing, and would have helped the reception of the technology as bringing an altruistic angle. Ri

I think this message should have been at the top of the 5G marketing, and would have helped the reception of the technology as bringing an altruistic angle. Right now, as it was pushed as something we're supposed to want for ourseleves and allow us to do rocket surgery from our phones, people just got burned and either learned to kill it in the settings or bitch about it all day long. I was watching a wireless home bridge review, and half of it was the reviewer looking into the settings and documentaton how to force 4G to get better speeds (spoiler: 4G was effectively faster). And that's a bog standard consumer targeted video with 700K views at launch.

Kwpolska 3y ago
> I think this message should have been at the top of the 5G marketing, and would have helped the reception of the technology as bringing an altruistic angle. Meanwhile, 3 out of the 4 big networks in Poland market it as a premium feature, and only offer 5G to the customers on more expensive plans or for extra fees. (The network that gives 5G to everyone is Plus, and their plans are cheaper as well.)
jaclaz 3y ago
At least here in Italy, we were hassled with those kind of "rocket surgery from your phone" :) ads, and told (whether right or wrong) that we had to change most of our TV's so that they could narrow the video transmission band to allow for more band for this marvellous 5G. It has been (and it will be) a major cost for families, besides the complication, especially for the older people that have now to deal with either a crappy external decoder or a crappy smart TV (as "normal" TV are in practice unobtanium). And all we got (where it works) is just a lot more people viewing videos on Tiktok.