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Re:Did 5G Kill the IMSI Catcher? by maxsilver on Monday April 28, 2025 @09:41AM (#43821451)
> Stadiums are pretty much the only place where mmWave in phones makes sense.

And Airports, and Parks, and Ampitheateaters, and Malls, and Theme Parks...

mmWave isn't a general solution, sure. But mmWave is great for anywhere crowded enough to benefit from a DAS setup, and there are a lot of DAS setups around.

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Re:Did 5G Kill the IMSI Catcher? by joecool1029 on Monday April 28, 2025 @12:42PM (#43823371)
In any case it was a much better solution than band 46 license assisted access LTE-A/NR-U which used unlicensed 5Ghz spectrum shared with wifi. If we want to talk about vaporware/abandoned stuff, this was among the most controversial and least deployed solutions to those areas before mmwave became a thing.
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Re:Did 5G Kill the IMSI Catcher? by maxsilver on Monday April 28, 2025 @02:51PM (#43824666)
Agreed. Stealing public WiFi spectrum for private LTE was always a terrible idea.
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