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Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk by TrueDuality on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @03:29PM (#19676546)
Looking only at capacity, it will definitely be cheaper to provide unlimited plans but even if that was the only factor, there isn't much of an incentive for carriers to change how they charge for bandwidth.

In all likelihood prices will go up as 5G requires a massive infrastructure deployment of very expensive hardware, spectrum licensing, and they'll have to pay to transmit and receive that data to the internet. All of those additional costs will be passed on to customers.

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Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk by viraptor on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:26PM (#19676997)
Even if it wasn't expensive to deploy, carrier customers pay for value provided. 5G will be in some way better, so more expensive. In the same way we use pay insane roaming rates until EU ruled they can't stay - suddenly carriers advertise how cheap the roaming is with them and how they're the first ones to offer it in the country...
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