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submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo...::AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile’s race to deploy 5G has failed to realize its flashiest outcomes while saddling carriers with debt and removing a competitor from the market.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

FTA:

"Then, it (Verizon) tried to sell us on low-band 5G, which actually turned out to be slower than 4G in some cases. The company is now slowly converting its existing network into standalone 5G as it lights up mid-band spectrum, but that’s a yearslong effort."

This is why I have a 5G phone and a "5G" connection, but my speeds are shit.

14.9 down, 0.13 up.

[–] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It's true, I guess they only built the "5G" towers to have the name alone, figuring customers would want the latest and greatest. It's worked, most people I see are using 5G even though every 5G network I've tested has yielded about the results you describe, 15mbps while I can easily get 30+ via 4glte standing in the same spot.