Re:U.S. is behind on 5G rules and deployment
by corodra on Saturday July 06, 2019 @02:32PM
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Okay, so I was under the impression that 5g paddles were going to also offer about 10 to 15 times the simultaneous phone call throughout. Great for when an event happens and everyone calls at the same time.
That's not true or am I misunderstanding something?
This is simply not true. 5G is both for bandwidth and latency. Your numbers are also very off. 4G can do a lot lower latency than 50ms and 5G will most of the time definitively have higher latency than 1 ms.
Re:U.S. is behind on 5G rules and deployment
by jinglebells on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:08PM
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From https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-rele...
"Latency was more consistent than the other measures across the 4G networks tested (an average of 53.1 milliseconds)."
I do work for a UK mobile company and was in a presentation about exactly this. 5G means more realtime.
Yes, 4G _can_ do lower latency, but in general it doesn't, especially in built up areas, where 5G beamforming outperforms .
5G doesn't solve a bandwidth problem, it solves a latency problem. 4G has a latency of ~50ms, 5G is more like 1ms. 50ms is noticeable in areas like remote robot control, video conferencing, remote surgery, IoT, remote control vehicles (not on the roads).