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Re:Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Netwo... by pjc50 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:02AM (#18723675)
The challenge is not so much to deliver 20mbit to one person, as to deliver anything at all to the several thousand people in the area of a tower, all of whom are waiting for their next push notification.

With 4G I routinely see situations in busy areas where the phone claims "full bars" but data performance is sub-dialup.

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Re:Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Netwo... by martinald on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:17AM (#18725031)
5G will not solve this problem. It cannot load much more bits/Hz of spectrum than LTE (iirc it is 10% or so more efficient, in ideal circumstances). More spectrum will solve this problem, and to be honest no reason LTE couldn't take advantage of that too, it is very good with channel aggregation.
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