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Interestingly, the "you had to be within 100 yards of a base station" doesn't sound entirely dissimilar to 5G.
by regularfry 3y ago
Interestingly, the "you had to be within 100 yards of a base station" doesn't sound entirely dissimilar to 5G.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y agoI really like this observation. In case a non-freq-wonk comes by: This a callback to the mm wave part of 5G. It's signal covers an area so small, you can quickly exit it at a walk. Mobile PR says it's awesome while you're in it.
- wongarsu 3y agoIt's the exciting part of 5g everyone talks about despite its somewhat narrow application. I guess busy subway stations are a good fit as they have large numbers of people in a tiny area. And in larger stations you can deploy multiple cells with minimal overlap to split the load.
- dehrmann 3y agoMy hope is mm wave cells start springing up at music festivals. Those and sports venues are the main use cases.
- bm-rf 3y agoEven with regular 5G (sub 6 ghz) you'd take advantage of improvements over LTE like massive MIMO and more precise beamforming. All leading to more people using a network at the same time. Also anecdotally I've found that at music festivals, when cellular data doesn't work, texting or calling usually works fine (At least on AT&T)
- afavour 3y ago> Mobile PR says it's awesome while you're in it. It is! Even better, I live across the street from one. I get 5G home internet at 1GBps, faster than my cabled provider can achieve.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y agoNice. Cap?
- secondcoming 3y agoWhat router do you use?