British Carrier Says 5G iPhone Just 'Days Away' in Internal Video Featuring Apple's Eddy Cue

[ksec]

I don’t understand the 5G craze, LTE is more that sufficient for most people. Not to mention, some networks aren’t even fully done rolling out LTE, why begin another project? AT&T’s LTE is so poor in my area.

Because it adds more capacity to existing 4G Network.

 

[Creek0512]

Seems the “5G” hype had died off, ATT already taking 6G

6GE

 

[dcdandan]

What do they mean by "days away"? To me it's 1 week tops. So they better clarify that.

short attention span eh

 

[bassanoclapper]

Are these British days or regular days?

European metric days

 

[vmistery]

haha so we don’t really have a clue when then. I’m actually looking forward to 5G, should give some better competition to fixed line broadband services with the lower latency (big problem on 4g for gamers) and allow more people to use services on phones in large crowds as well as the potential iot stuff that might take advantage like cars. Not all of that will probably be fully embraced but at least one will I’d imagine.

 

[Chopper3]

Likewise, BT is now just BT, it's no longer an acronym for British Telecom.

I'm sorry but that's not the case, BT is just a trademark for British Telecommunications PLC, which very much exists.

 

[Chopper3]

The BT reference is largely irrelevant, this is EE one of the big three UK mobile networks (the other being known as 3 confusingly). They got a year exclusive on the first cellular Apple Watch.

That's said, maybe it is relevant as if you have a problem with your BT broadband connection, you'll usually get the fantastically helpful and specific response..."don't worry, our engineer will be out to you *within days*".

EE is wholly-owned and ran by BT.

 

[Veinticinco]

EE is wholly-owned and ran by BT.

I know, hence the word "irrelevant" not "incorrect"

 

[mariusfanu]

When you say days away, do you mean ~20?