4G definitely enabled video. We’ve yet to have the app that 5G enables, not to say that something won’t show up eventually.

What killed 3G for me is that they artificially slowed it down to give 4G priority or something.

Without a doubt.

I recall in 2011 using a 3G tethered connection to play low latency games with people across the world. It worked incredibly well, and never failed.

Nowadays, that’s not possible. I am not even sure how well it would work on 4G in some areas, given how congested a lot of networks are.

5G enables more capacity. A carrier can service more clients in the same area without degrading performance than they can with LTE.

This is not something that is obvious to the end user. There is nothing exceptional about your phone working as expected, and the explosive growth in bandwidth usage and the number of active cellular clients over the last decade is not on most people's minds.

That fits with what I’ve seen - the carriers love 5G and want it everywhere, and the advertisements struggle to explain why I want it.

oh great, more capacity for the use case when we're all streaming 1080p video at a soccer match, over cellular.

The most important thing to do at a live sport event is watch some other sport event elsewhere apparently.

5G near me is something like 15x faster than wired broadband. I don't care about it for mobile, but I'm excited to finally ditch my landline and crappy 20mbit line.

That's great. 5G can work if it's deployed well and with sufficient capacity. Unfortunately, that's not the case everywhere. For example, there's no 5G in my area at all and even the 4G coverage and speeds suck. Thankfully, in my area, I have 200mbit cable internet and WiFi calling. So to use a cliche: Your mileage may vary...

> We’ve yet to have the app that 5G enables

Eventually we'll be pixel streaming real time graphics and workstations (eg. Mighty) to our phones and tablets. This will enable entirely new types of content and productivity tools.

Power can live at the edge and stream to cheap, easily replaceable consumer devices.