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I am personally fine with my current phone speeds. I even use my phone as a hotspot for my laptop when I do coding at the park.

Curious what the bottlenecks for people are that make them want 5G so urgently?



Our phones can't upload all the user data they could collect.

Our phones can't download the all the ads that could be sent to them fast enough.


For one, many people don’t have data fast and low-latency enough to make hotspot usage a good enough experience.


If your signal levels are poor enough that 4G is slow, 5G isnt going to help unless you happen to be extremely close to a mmWave access point with nothing but air in between it and your phone.


It isn't just Signal, but Network Capacity.




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