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  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    And, do we need 5G? I’m doing more than fine on my 4G. To the point I’d actually forgotten about 5G. Last I checked it was a bit more marketing than innovation as it’s increased speeds were not reliable.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes, depending by on where you are and who your provider is, medium band 5g is everywhere and is a noticeable improvement over 4g. Providers will be moving their bandwidth more to 5g over time, so it will become more important.

      mmWave 5g seems to be only in cities, is a slow rollout, and your provider may charge more to use it. Most of us wont

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      5G is totally not needed for a phone, but at least on my network (t-mobile) the bandwidth allotted to 4G now is reduced, so when I am using 4G, it’s a lot slower than it used to be. Same thing happened to 3G. Once 4G was the norm it really throttles down 3G.