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zkareface t1_irx5mca wrote

Rural areas is one of the places that will see highest benefit from 5G though since they most often are lacking capacity. Cities have so many basestations already that its not doing much.

You pretty much just swap the base station and instead of building more towers you increased capacity for a whole area greatly.

Where I am they already put 5G in areas with 100-500 inhabitants because 4G couldn't handle the traffic.

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zkareface t1_irx4qyr wrote

Its just an upgrade to 4G though. They remove 4G networks and add 5G, if your phone only support 4G you stay on the 4G frequencies.

It allows for better reception, faster speeds, lower ping, more users.

The tech is straight up better in any scenario and in many places it has already replaced 4G. But any 4G device is compatible with 5G networks so users won't know if they are on 5G or not :)

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PancAshAsh t1_irwv38q wrote

It will remain so for a long time because quite frankly that's where it is needed. The biggest advantages that 5G technologies (yes, many many technologies) bring is increased capacity. Generally speaking it won't be rolled out in rural areas because it's expensive and those towers don't really get that congested in comparison to urban towers.

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PancAshAsh t1_irwujhw wrote

Modem manufacturers most definitely do have a role to play in that. Not all modems are created equal, and if Apple sold their modem to other companies they would have to provide a datasheet listing sensitivities at different bands.

That's to say, it's unlikely that Apple is the sole reason that this guy only gets 4 bars, but if you compared an iPhone and a Galaxy or Pixel at the same place at the same time you would get 3 different signal strengths.

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