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It might unblock new products.

Being uneducated on 5g in particular, low latency fast internet can result in proliferation of mobile ar/ve devices, and bring internet to towns that otherwise dont have cable/fiber wiring, etc.

There are some efforts in robotics that would have much better ux if they had faster internet in remote places.

You can imagine stadia running on mobile on the extreme. Everything cloud streamed.

Faster internet means when it matters you wont have to wait downloading a large binary, even though you dont need to be utilizing it 100% of the billing cycle.

A mobile surgery center can be operated by a world renowned md, at the comfort of yheir home

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>It might unblock new products.

>Being uneducated on 5g in particular, low latency fast internet can result in proliferation of mobile ar/ve devices.

If these new things rely on 5g, how well will they work as soon as they move out of range of 5g internet?

>Bring internet to towns that otherwise dont have cable/fiber wiring, etc.

>There are some efforts in robotics that would have much better ux if they had faster internet in remote places.

But wait. Doesn't 5g have more limited range than previous wireless generations? It seems existing LTE towers would be a better solution if you just wanted to cover the earth in high speed internet.

>If these new things rely on 5g, how well will they work as soon as they move out of range of 5g internet?

That's... true for all network-based technologies. Electricity is great, but if you don't have a grid connection, battery or means of generating it... you can't use it.

>But wait. Doesn't 5g have more limited range than previous wireless generations? It seems existing LTE towers would be a better solution if you just wanted to cover the earth in high speed internet.

5g includes a high-frequency version which is extremely high-throughput but short range and murdered by walls. There is a lower-throughput version at a much lower frequency which has solid range comparable with low-frequency 4g.

Historically, “can” has rarely become “did” with regards to improvements in rural broadband internet access.

There are definitely a lot of ideas and research behind them that are just waiting for more accessible low-latency internet connections. Robotic surgery was an interesting one for me, as the latency was a tremendous bottleneck for remote applications.

Yes! From the days of 14400kbps(my first dialup connection), to 56kbps, to 128k, 1mb and now 1gb, each one of them found more use few years after they are introduced.

5g wont be an exception.

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