5G is about capacity, if you want more people to use the network, using more Data, and more affordable. Then you want 5G.
Yes, your 1Gbps Ethernet is enough for majority of your needs. Except you are not the only one using the 1Gbps Ethernet.
Yes, your 1Gbps Ethernet is enough for majority of your needs. Except you are not the only one using the 1Gbps Ethernet.
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.
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.)
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.
If that’s right, then all the consumer-oriented ads for 5G are pointless.
Even if they weren’t, people are using more and more bandwidth just naturally loading ads and shit I guess.
But they still charge extra and lot of it here for the contract...
One could understand, why they need to market the hype ( or bait ) to switch to 5G. On the other hand, most of the marketing point, like self driving vehicles, remote surgery operation, mmWave for everyone, or so called up to 20Gbps are by most's [1] people's standard "lying". They could have used other marketing points , but somehow marketing for tech has become something else.
If you talk to most if not all engineers working on 5G, whether that is the 3GPP spec, or actual network implementation in both software and hardware. They would all tell you the truth, 5G is simply a better 4G. And to be honest, as an Engineers, Tech Enthusiast, and also a consumer. That is good enough for what it is.
[1] May be not America because it seems you could get away with Tesla type of marketing and hype without immediate penalties.