My disappointment is the lack of discussion regarding privacy. It was posted on HN just a few weeks ago how a human can be identified by its gate with high density deployment of antennas.
5G’s benefits over 4G are:
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4G’s benefits over 5G are:
- Fewer towers necessary because larger coverage areas
- Better penetration of materials
- Doesn’t interfere with weather data collection
Why is there even a push for 5G? What is the benefit to the consumer? A higher bill because a 10x increase in infrastructure is necessary? Asinine. Just use wifi. I don’t understand what 5G was even made to technically accomplish.
It enables huge numbers of connections, making it more feasible for IoT appliances to use cell radios instead of wifi radios, taking yet more control away from consumers.
Oh wait, 'benefits'... well I suppose that's a matter of perspective..
You can literally google "5g benefits" and read through any number of whitepapers.
For one, it has much lower latency, making it competitive with fibre in many areas.
It's more efficient, allowing more devices in the same area. The 60GHz band in particular will allow extreme densities as seen in sports stadiums or major train stations in rush hour.
It has higher peak bandwidth.
It includes special modes optimised for very lower power devices with modest bandwidth requirements.
Etc...
What do people do on their phones ? I'm forcing mine in 3g all the time and it's faster than I need already. Why would you need 1ms ping and 1gbs d/u speeds ?
This sounds like phones having 4k+ screens to me, updating specs for the sake of updating specs, there is no real world need behind it. I guess many people are making big bucks in the scheme though, that's probably the major 5g benefit.
Remote desktop, ssh, VoIP, gaming... anything that's interactive. All of those work better and are more fun to use with low latency.
Even plain web browsing can be much more enjoyable with a low latency connection assuming there's no other bottleneck.
Our computers are millions of times more powerful than back in the days but somehow my 2018 macbook pro crawls to a halt if slack displays more than 2 gifs at the same time.
Anyway, I think we're artificially creating needs that aren't needs in the first place. "b-bu-but how am I supposed to telework from the subway if I don't have my 5g =(", "I can't even stream youtube 8k videos from the bus =("