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minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year 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-squarefloofloof@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI think it has some security improvements over LTE. It is harder to track and spoof people’s phones with 5G.
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoIs this improvement enough to justify massive expense taxpayers incurred to fund telcos CapEx?
minus-squareweew@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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?
I think it has some security improvements over LTE. It is harder to track and spoof people’s phones with 5G.
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