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Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase by askvictor on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:16PM (#16387202)
Even with fibre, it wouldn't take many users on the theoretical capacity of 5g to saturate the uplink.
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Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase by Retric on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:41PM (#16387942)
5g is shared bandwidth from ~20Gbps download 10gbps upload, increasing the number of users over a minimum does not increase peak bandwidth just utilization.

Considering multiple carriors would each have 20gbps and there are ~200,000 cell towers in the US we are talking massive bandwidth in aggregate.

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