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Re:There's a 30-year old dead rabbit in Seven Sisters tube s... by wongarsu on Friday April 12, 2024 @11:02AM (#40013743)
It's the exciting part of 5g everyone talks about despite its somewhat narrow application. I guess busy subway stations are a good fit as they have large numbers of people in a tiny area. And in larger stations you can deploy multiple cells with minimal overlap to split the load.
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Re:There's a 30-year old dead rabbit in Seven Sisters tube s... by dehrmann on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:06PM (#40014450)
My hope is mm wave cells start springing up at music festivals. Those and sports venues are the main use cases.
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Re:There's a 30-year old dead rabbit in Seven Sisters tube s... by bm-rf on Friday April 12, 2024 @02:09PM (#40015896)
Even with regular 5G (sub 6 ghz) you'd take advantage of improvements over LTE like massive MIMO and more precise beamforming. All leading to more people using a network at the same time. Also anecdotally I've found that at music festivals, when cellular data doesn't work, texting or calling usually works fine (At least on AT&T)
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