• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    5 hours ago

    Believe or not, still won’t be getting the mythical 1gbps

    What is the actual benefit of 5g besides draining phone battery faster than LTE?

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      3 hours ago

      5G has some security improvements, making it harder to track and spoof people’s phones. It also supposedly offers lower latencies.

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        3 hours ago

        Is this improvement enough to justify massive expense taxpayers incurred to fund telcos CapEx?

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          It also reuses old 2G/3G bands to allow much much higher throughput and therefore more customers per band