5G is brand new tech that's not used by anyone. 4G was also supposed to be 50-70 Mbps when it launched. It was at most 12 Mbps, in the beginning, and then it dropped to much less than that as more people got onto the 4G network.
Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
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#62Has everyone settled on one 5G or will the 5G landscape in the US still be split between GSM 5G and CDMA 5G?
Qualcomm figured out that they make more money by patenting everything they can think of in 4G/5G and collecting that from everyone instead of selling their own hardware to a handful of operators who adopt their closed standard, so CDMA is dead (their "CDMA 4G" was never adopted by anyone, everything worldwide is LTE/"GSM 4G")
I didn’t know we’d already centralized. Thanks.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, the 5G NR standard was finalized in december of 2017.
Do you have any link with more information on that?
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#64Has everyone settled on one 5G or will the 5G landscape in the US still be split between GSM 5G and CDMA 5G?
LTE is the next generation technology for both 3G (3GPP) and CDMA (3GPP2). Said another way: the merge already happened with LTE. So there's one continuation now, NR (New Radio) within 3GPP.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the biggest difference is going to be raising monthly download caps. 4gig to ~50 gig is huge, but T-mobil has 50 gig caps now. So, I could see most people getting by with 500 gig / month for home internet connections. Which is going to put a lot of pressure on ISP's to improve.
I'm genuinely hoping that it puts ISPs in a bad position to have no dominance in the market. I've been under a "provider" who caps out at 10Mbps with, sadly, about 40% uptime with our neighborhood for about 5 years (constant outages. On a first name/you've got my phone number basis with the contracted technician, as is quite a few people in the neighborhood). I joined the board to get out of it. We're due to get out…
What's the difference between an ISP and a cell phone company?
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#66Do you think this means streaming high end games like OnLive tried to do will become a reality?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm genuinely hoping that it puts ISPs in a bad position to have no dominance in the market. I've been under a "provider" who caps out at 10Mbps with, sadly, about 40% uptime with our neighborhood for about 5 years (constant outages. On a first name/you've got my phone number basis with the contracted technician, as is quite a few people in the neighborhood). I joined the board to get out of it. We're due to get out…
What's the difference between an ISP and a cell phone company?
Competition.
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#68Without more details on the test setup, it's hard to evaluate it. 5G can be deployed with much more spectrum than 4G can be. Deployed with 60-80MHz of spectrum, US carriers have shown off LTE north of 700Mbps. The article said that they were using the 3.5GHz band, but they didn't say how much spectrum they were using which makes the comparison incredibly suspect. Do an image search for "T-Mobile gigabit" or "Sprint g…
> What I want is a comparison between LTE and 5G NR that uses the same amount of spectrum in the same band.
But if they did an honest comparison like that, they couldn't claim ridiculous numbers like "14x bandwidth improvements".
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#69Of course. Nobody's on 5G yet.
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#70I'm not disputing 5G is faster, but was congestion taken into account for this test? 4G for me is noticeably slower than when I first got a 4G phone, primarily because the network has become more congested as it became the mainstream.
Even if it loses 60% of its speed due to congestion, if the price and monthly quotas are comparable to my home cable connection, I'll be saying good-bye to Comcast.. (especially if they have any decent upload speed, I push a lot of docker/vagrant images) I actually think the home market would be an ideal place for them to start, as its much less 'mobile' so if you get coverage, your not going to have spotty coverage…
T-Mobile just bought Layer3. They're totally gunning for home broadband/video.
https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/uncarrier-tv-cl...