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minus-squaresunzu2linkfedilink1•7 hours agoBelieve or not, still won’t be getting the mythical 1gbps What is the actual benefit of 5g besides draining phone battery faster than LTE?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-25 hours ago5G has some security improvements, making it harder to track and spoof people’s phones. It also supposedly offers lower latencies.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•46 minutes agoWell, actually, 5G was weakened so they could still spy.
minus-squaresunzu2linkfedilink-4•5 hours agoIs this improvement enough to justify massive expense taxpayers incurred to fund telcos CapEx?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•4 hours agoIt also reuses old 2G/3G bands to allow much much higher throughput and therefore more customers per band
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?
5G has some security improvements, making it harder to track and spoof people’s phones. It also supposedly offers lower latencies.
Well, actually, 5G was weakened so they could still spy.
Is this improvement enough to justify massive expense taxpayers incurred to fund telcos CapEx?
It also reuses old 2G/3G bands to allow much much higher throughput and therefore more customers per band