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Re:5G is perfectly fine by aphextron on Saturday June 06, 2020 @03:45PM (#23441733)
>"And again, what is all of this for? Faster downloads of instagram photos? I don't get it. How about starting with infrastructure projects that matter like fiber - some people in the US only have DSL as an option..."

It's all about latency. Current 4G tech is ~50ms at best. 5G is <5ms. That opens up a whole new class of real time applications for mobile devices. Not to mention that omnipresent 5G would obliviate the need for residential fiber and be much cheaper/easier to deploy at scale.

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Re:5G is perfectly fine by gsich on Saturday June 06, 2020 @07:40PM (#23443341)
The latency advertisement in 5G is only the latency between your device and the base station you are connected to.

LTE is already in the <10ms area, so expect a real world latency improvement of about ~5ms.

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Re:5G is perfectly fine by VHRanger on Saturday June 06, 2020 @03:54PM (#23441794)
Talk to me when my mobile plan has unlimited data.

Until then I can only see 5G hype as pure marketing from the telecom industry.

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