• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I think it has some security improvements over LTE. It is harder to track and spoof people’s phones with 5G.

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      1 year ago

      Is this improvement enough to justify massive expense taxpayers incurred to fund telcos CapEx?

      • weew@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        It also reuses old 2G/3G bands to allow much much higher throughput and therefore more customers per band