Verizon Vows To Build the First 5G Network In the US (networkworld.com)

alphadogg writes: Verizon says it will have the first 5G network in the U.S., a promise it probably can't fulfill until 2020 but will start working at this year. Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo made the pledge Thursday on the company's fourth-quarter financial results call. He also repeated the company's plans for so-called 5G trials this year.

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Re:Why? 4g is fast enough

[alvinrod]

Speed isn't an issue for me, it's bandwidth.

With the current caps and bandwidth limits in place, adding more speed is like dropping a bigger engine in a Ferrari that can only be driven on a quarter-mile track with a giant brick wall at the end. What's the point besides getting to crash into the wall that much sooner?

However, given how bloated websites are getting due to so much javascript, shitty advertising, and other cruft, they may need the speed boost just to keep the page load times reasonable.

Why is it called 5G?

[darkain]

Why is it called 5G? Because that's how much throughput you're allowed each month.

Re:Why? 4g is fast enough

[tnk1]

I need a fifth G. I have an iPhone with a 6, which means my G's are two behind. I can tolerate maybe being one G behind, but this is getting ridiculous.

Re: at $15 a gig in overages they will pay off the

[msauve]

"Hey, dumbass, guess what. Voice communication uses more data than texts or video streaming,"

Hey, AC, guess what? You're extremely wrong. A full telco fidelity G.711 voice stream uses ~64 kbps (unidirectional). The recommended speech codec for VoLTE is G.722.2, which provides HD audio in <24 kbps. What video streaming are you doing in a 64 k channel? You can't even do decent stereo audio with that.