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Will it still be 30MB/s when 100,000+ people in your 5G cell are using it though? I don't understand the tech. 100k people in San Fran pulling 30MB/s would require 3 TB/s of spectrum bandwidth. Isn't that a lot, or am I just way out of the loop and still thinking in 1990's units. :)

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Spectrum is weird. Technically WiFi is also spectrum and it supports every household in SF with way more than 30 MB/s each.

So it’s really just a matter of how many antennas and how “far” (including walls) can the frequency travel.

Oh that's a great example. The 2.4 GHz IMS band used by Wi-Fi literally serves hundreds of millions, but only have a radius of about a house. I heard 5G cells have smaller diameters, so that makes way more sense. Thanks!

The reason why mobile internet in rural areas is bad is because carriers are too cheap to put cell towers every few kilometres.

They should really be forced to in the same vein as how telephone companies are forced to run service anywhere.

Broadband should be declared an essential service, like power and water.

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