Eli5: why isn’t 5g internet as fast as they said it would be?

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I remember people saying it would be faster than most wired connections.

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The big mobile telecoms lobbied the IEEE to change the “g” naming scheme from generation to marketing speak for faster. The former defined a new generation as 10x faster while the later is the technology is one day capable of it.

More Gs are typically better but the enite concept has been co-opted and is meaningless now

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