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Capitalism: 5G and tariff inflation
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Main points of 5G providers in China and US:

    • Actual speed for end users won't increase (contrary to potential much higher limits)
    • New bandwidth will be mostly used by security cameras, smart senors and government agencies
    • Significantly increasing consumer speeds is also impossible due to tight limits of NSA and China analog for traffic filtering and tracking
    • Smartphone tariffs will see highest inflation in history, payment can jump from 50% to 150% for same amount of traffic within 2 years
    • 5G base stations are dense and very expensive due to lot of power used and optical cables required
    • Unlimited tariffs already prohibited in China and will be prohibited in US in 2022
    • Main idea is to make consumer pay for government security and tracking and spying capabilities and corporations needs.
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  • jleojleo

    It will only be faster when it takes money from your bank account :)

    AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag AT&T smartphone users who see their network indicators switch from "4G" to "5G" shouldn't necessarily expect that they're about to get faster speeds. In PCMag's annual mobile-network testing, released today, 5G phones connected to AT&T got slower speeds than 4G phones in 21 out of 22 cities.

    PCMag concluded that "AT&T 5G right now appears to be essentially worthless," though AT&T's average download speed of 103.1Mbps was nearly as good as Verizon's thanks to a strong 4G performance. Of course, AT&T 5G should be faster than 4G in the long run—this isn't another case of AT&T misleadingly labeling its 4G network as a type of 5G. Instead, the disappointing result on PCMag's test has to do with how today's 5G phones work and with how AT&T allocates spectrum.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/atts-current-5g-is-slower-than-4g-in-nearly-every-city-tested-by-pcmag/

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