I remember people saying it would be faster than most wired connections.
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5G is not one thing, it’s a bunch of things.
The extreme high speeds talked up at the start of the rollout were possible using millimeter-wave radio. The downside of such high frequencies is terrible range, which means this form of 5G was only rolled out in very large cities.
So dude in Brooklyn getting 500mbps? Yeah. It’s cause you’re in Brooklyn.
Lower frequency 5G still offers higher speed than 4G for the given location, but without the crippling range issues….
Verizon did a huge mmWave deployment first (with limited coverage), TMobile did almosg exclusively the lower frequency stuff (as a paint the map pink project, even if it meant slower speed)… Don’t know what ATTs strategy was…..
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