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Re:Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GPS, nati... by asdff on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:32PM (#23106427)
Well, this isn't like having electricity or not. Mobile internet already exists. What would 5G offer you that 4G doesn't? All I've read about its shortcomings in range tell me implementation will be difficult, and reliable 4G is barely implemented where I live in the second largest city in the U.S. Not trying to be critical, just interested in learning a bit more, how will 5G be any different practically speaking?
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Re:Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GPS, nati... by ThatPlayer on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:24PM (#23107837)
The shortcomings in range is just the mmWave 5G. Which is the same trade off as 2.4ghz vs 5ghz wifi of higher bandwidth for less range/pentration. You can still run 5G on the same old spectrums as 4G for the same range, and only slight improvements in speed (not the 1 gigabit that you'd get on mmWave).
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