First off, I don't believe in any of the conspiracy theories that are being circulated around.
Now that that's out of the way, I've been trying to research and think of practical applications that the increased speeds could provide but I'm drawing a blank.
I watched Marques Brownlee's 5G video from last year to try understand it more, but the only things I took away from it was that it's fast but unreliable unless in direct line of sight of one of the nodes.
I just don't understand why anyone outside of a tiny niche of content creators would need download speeds of 1,500+ Mbps on their mobile device. As I see it, 4G speeds are plenty to consume any currently available online media, including 4K streaming video. Maques was comparing download speeds of apps like Fortnite and PUBG and granted it's much faster than 4G, it's still not something that's of any real importance - installing apps is generally a one-time endeavor that's not repeated on a daily basis.
So my questions still is, what is the point of 5G? Is it there to give more bandwidth headroom to service providers (ie. are 4G networks currently working at max capacity) or are there some things that simply cannot be done without 5G infrastructure and speeds? I just hope that 5G isn't here only so that people can download Fortnite on their phone quicker than before. I want to hear about the real-life benefits that I must be overlooking.
Thanks to anyone that can shed some light on this for me!
Now that that's out of the way, I've been trying to research and think of practical applications that the increased speeds could provide but I'm drawing a blank.
I watched Marques Brownlee's 5G video from last year to try understand it more, but the only things I took away from it was that it's fast but unreliable unless in direct line of sight of one of the nodes.
I just don't understand why anyone outside of a tiny niche of content creators would need download speeds of 1,500+ Mbps on their mobile device. As I see it, 4G speeds are plenty to consume any currently available online media, including 4K streaming video. Maques was comparing download speeds of apps like Fortnite and PUBG and granted it's much faster than 4G, it's still not something that's of any real importance - installing apps is generally a one-time endeavor that's not repeated on a daily basis.
So my questions still is, what is the point of 5G? Is it there to give more bandwidth headroom to service providers (ie. are 4G networks currently working at max capacity) or are there some things that simply cannot be done without 5G infrastructure and speeds? I just hope that 5G isn't here only so that people can download Fortnite on their phone quicker than before. I want to hear about the real-life benefits that I must be overlooking.
Thanks to anyone that can shed some light on this for me!