I miss Nextel. Will never forgive Sprint for buying it and killing it off.
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Sprint Launches Mobile 5G Network in Four U.S. Cities
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I miss Nextel. Will never forgive Sprint for buying it and killing it off.
https://newsroom.sprint.com/sprints...may-17-for-lg-v50-thinq-5g-and-htc-5g-hub.htm
HTC Hub $12.50/month after $12.50/month credit, applied within two bills. With approved credit, 24-month installment billing agreement, and new line of service. If you cancel early, remaining balance due. Tax due at sale. 5G coverage will be limited in select cities. See Sprint.com/coverage for actual coverage and availability. HTC 5G Hub SRP: $600. $60/100GB MBB Price Plan - With AutoPay. MHS reduced to 2G speeds after 100 GB/mo. Data deprioritization during congestion. Excludes taxes, fees and roaming. Number of devices may be limited by hardware. Restrictions apply.
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real reason for 5g is it will enable universal uhd (4k) surveillance over everyone.
not to mention constant exposure to mmwave radiation, which is while not ionizing, is raising a lot of concerns among medical experts
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/03/is-5g-worth-the-risks/
not to mention constant exposure to mmwave radiation, which is while not ionizing, is raising a lot of concerns among medical experts
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/03/is-5g-worth-the-risks/
IMHO, 5G is about stationary wireless broadband to help offload existing 4G infrastructure to provide faster speeds without caps. If you think satellite rain fade is annoying, lets see how 5G mmwave service holds up in a tropical climate. I actually hope poured concrete walls and hurricane impact windows keep mmwaves out of my home, and I certainly don't want mmwaves in my front pocket anywhere near the family jewels.
4K isn't worth a damn unless the content is in 4K, of which there is little unless you like watching nature YouTube videos and mostly subpar Netflix content.
All live sports are broadcasted in 1080i or lower AND compressed. Same with network TV. Same with cable TV. It's a joke.
Yes, there is 4K content, but you're probably watching a lot more 1080i if you have any kind of cable plan. If you don't, the content available just isn't plentiful/good enough.
And no, upscaling doesn't look any better.
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Is this line of sight for 5g? I had a tech try to install the verizon 5g in my home. The antenna was about two blocks away and I could clearly see it from my home. However it was pointing away from me and the signal couldn't penetrate my windows so they said they couldn't provide reliable service and left. Seems flaky at best.
Why was the company called Sprint when it is considered by many to have the slowest connectivity ?
Haha that’s true, Tesla selling cars as autonomous that aren’t actually autonomous.. and banned from being so too! Yeah don’t think much of Tesla to be honest.
Still 5G is now here, personally I couldn’t care less.. but some will go nuts for gigabit speeds, just to load those You Tube videos half a second faster?
We should not even discuss it from the technology standpoint. Instead we should fight to ban them in court.
I would argue that nobody *really* needs 5g speeds anyway, even if there weren't studies indicating that it skyrockets your chances to get cancer. Even if there is a possibility these studies are wrong, I don't understand how anybody can argue that taking this chance to become the first lab rats is a good thing.
I would argue that nobody *really* needs 5g speeds anyway, even if there weren't studies indicating that it skyrockets your chances to get cancer. Even if there is a possibility these studies are wrong, I don't understand how anybody can argue that taking this chance to become the first lab rats is a good thing.
Really Marketing, it works actually.
Coverage & Load matters more that 4G/5G.
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Agree with your concerns.
Take a look at beta self driving Teslas going around using public roads and citizens as test tracks and dummies.
Is there data to show that rate of accidents are higher with Tesla Cars compared to other cars ?
I think anytime a Tesla is involved in an accident that will be big news, but if there is an accident with normal cars then that don't get reported, so numbers might be skewed. Have to look at the data.
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Sprint doesn't have "e"
You're joking right? You know that 5Ge is NOT 5G.
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3G networks are dead/dying and have been for years. This simply has to do with spectrum being repurposed from 3G to 4G LTE years ago to make a good 4G network. And it will happen again with 4G to 5G.
When phones are rarely connecting to a network tech. it gets dropped and spectrum gets repurposed.
5g?? I can't even talk and have data at the same time with Sprint. Lets not run before we can crawl.
Oh man... I remember when that was a thing a long time ago. All those "Talk and Surf at the same time" AT&T commercials while Verizon couldn't do it. Luckily times have changed.
But Sprint still can't do it today?
I've been a sprint customer for over 10 years. Their 4G network can't even get you 3G speeds. And I live in the Washington DC metro area. **** them with this 5G bs. They should work at getting a decent 4G first.
Same frequencies as LTE on Sprint. Provide credible sources about "microwaving" people or quit with the fear mongering. The spectrum you're referring to has trouble penetrating fabric. Not sure how it's going to make it through our epidermis... lol. Sprint's 2.5 GHz spectrum (which has many times the range of mmW) was criticized in its early deployment for being unable to "penetrate a paper bag". Ridiculous.
[doublepost=1559246626][/doublepost]Early testing on Twitter is showing similar peak speeds to AT&T's 5Ge, but on an empty network...