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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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

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