I live in a rural town (~6000) between a large city and a small city. T-Mobile’s claims are good marketing speak, but little real substance.
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Apple Joins Industry Group Working Towards 6G
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I'm talking about like living in the sticks. Upstate NY, central PA, etc
Several problems with 4G are being ameliorated by 5G, including congestion and stability with low signal strength. Here in Canada 5G is rolling out on 600Mhz and 3.5GHz so it will ultimately provide more stable connections than 4G, even at the edge of 4G coverage.
Lack of coverage on the countryside in general exists because of the carriers' unwillingness to invest in areas with lower populations because they don't think there'll be much profit there. 4G vs 5G vs 6G is not relevant, all new towers being put up now are probably both 4G and 5G capable (sub-6 at least) anyway.
Let researchers and standards working groups do what they do, they're not the problem, they're just looking at the future and if we fired them we'd still not get more cell towers on the countryside.
Yes lol I remember watching it never thinking 5g could be real yet here we are.
Well I'm glad, I'm right on the edge of 4G coverage and I get pretty weak speeds. It maxes out at 5-10mbps at home. If I get double that, which I hear is common, it'll be welcome.
Gotcha...not quite in the styx for me, but just spent a week in Western NC (Fontana Dam) with ZERO bars, so I can empathize.
The solution:
1. Restricted telecom lobbying and introduce a payroll tax on executives, independent of state of residency, that decreases as % coverage increases defined by an annual public vote.
2. Give telecoms 1 quarter to resolve any issues during which time they must allow free roaming in that county from all other carriers to ensure improvements can handle increased capacity.
3. Give counties the ability to reclaim, without refund, any spectrum that originates in their area if performance and reliability does not meet the needs of the citizens as decided by local voting.
4. Allow the county the option to resell the spectrum to another telecom provided they resolve the issues within 2 quarters.
It all comes down to giving the final say to the people that live in the area where service is being provided.
In Australia where I live anyway 4GX I can get a good portion of the time almost 300Mbps. 5G so far I have been getting a bit over 100Mbps. But they really should work on making 4g and 5g better before even thinking of moving to so called 6g.
You would need to pack a 1 sq meter antenna on your head and a battery backpack on your back for that to work.
Nothing really. From a user perspective, 5G is a better 4G, just like 6G will be a better 5G. Although 6G is not even defined in the loose sense, the goal is pretty much set / the same as with previous "G".
One possible consequence is that everything will be on Mobile Network and it will work like your Home Internet with unlimited Data ( with throttling / QoS ).
Apple being in the group will mean some practical thoughtfulness will come to Apple products. Like Apple designing thunderbolt and USB C into same port.
USB-C would definitely be great on an iPhone and is coming sometime in the near future but what does that have to do with them working on 6G technology lol?
This is a technical standards working group who will define protocols, spectrum and other standards related to 6G wireless. These groups always exist many many years before any hardware/software is even in the R&D lab. If they waited for 5G mmWave to be fully available (completely irrelevant to this group) then NA would be far behind the rest of world in 6G development.