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The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The 2 main benefits of 5G are better latency and more efficient spectrum use.

The promises of massive speed boosts are mostly marketing and the potential of using new pieces of spectrum

[–] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The promises of massive speed boosts were met. 5g is insanely fast compared to 4g in my area, and I don't live in a massive metropolitan area.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

LTE with carrier aggregation can get almost as fast as any 5G that I have tested so far.