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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by Causality1 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @11:42AM (#20787770)
Indeed. What's the point in being able to use up the 22GB data cap on my "unlimited" plan in five minutes instead of seventy minutes?
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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by tzs on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:08PM (#20788324)
You only need about 70 Kbit/second to use 22 GB in a month. Would you be happy with a wireless plan that only gave you 70 Kbit/second? Probably not.

For the large number of people, probably a majority, who in most months don't hit their caps their two main annoyances with wireless performance are poor signal and things taking too long.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by Causality1 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:51PM (#20788566)
Yep. I'm just making the argument that there's no quality of life difference between a 40 megabit mobile connection and a 700 megabit one. If 5G came with a massive range improvement instead of a speed boost I'd be excited, but it doesn't. I can't check email at my grandparent's house now and I still won't be able to after 5G deployment.
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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by rhino369 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:10PM (#20790916)
The reason their are low caps like 22GB is because LTE networks have limited bandwdith. These 5G networks will have 10X bandwidth.

Eventually, the carriers will increase bandwidth caps.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by Causality1 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:50AM (#20791416)
That wasn't true for 3G/4G. Unlimited 3G plans were truly unlimited, and for a while 4G plans were also truly unlimited. My highest data usage in a month was 144GB. At no point in time were "unlimited" plans more restricted than they are now and there is no evidence that trend will suddenly reverse itself with 5G.
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