Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
by adventured on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:14AM
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> how many towers currently have the bandwidth capacity at their base to support this new throughput at scale? All this may do is shift the bottleneck
Expanding tower capacity is part of the 5G build-out. There's an upgrade spending binge going currently. The US wireless market has enough competition now, mostly thanks to T-Mobile, to force all of the carriers to properly upgrade. They're not wasting any time, all of them are aggressively pursuing it as a competitive advantage.
AT&T and Verizon have been losing customers to T-Mobile for years now. If they make the mistake of claiming 5G, when it's not, T-Mobile will just use it as an opportunity to hammer them. Competition, it works.
This also gives the large carriers in the US an opportunity to go after taking more broadband business from Comcast.
Expanding tower capacity is part of the 5G build-out. There's an upgrade spending binge going currently. The US wireless market has enough competition now, mostly thanks to T-Mobile, to force all of the carriers to properly upgrade. They're not wasting any time, all of them are aggressively pursuing it as a competitive advantage.
AT&T and Verizon have been losing customers to T-Mobile for years now. If they make the mistake of claiming 5G, when it's not, T-Mobile will just use it as an opportunity to hammer them. Competition, it works.
This also gives the large carriers in the US an opportunity to go after taking more broadband business from Comcast.