I've been keeping up with this a little here and there over the past year or longer. From my understanding the towers are already there and the only hold up is the phones and they are set to start rolling out in Dec of this year.

One article I was reading last week was saying that one 5G tower could support a football stadium of people all watching 4k movies and not skip a beat.

When I first heard about it a year and half ago was on a talk radio show on a Sunday night and the guy was talking about 5G was the reason that most cell phone companies were moving to unlimited plans because of the amount of data that can be transferred.

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Posted by UltimaParadox

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Posted on 1/8/19 at 11:50 pm to MrLarson

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One article I was reading last week was saying that one 5G tower could support a football stadium of people all watching 4k movies and not skip a beat.

Theoretically sure... In reality we are not there yet. 4g LTE should support 100mbit, but most of us get about a quarter of that. There is only so much spectrum, however the shorter "distances" that higher frequency 5g signals travel will help some.

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was the reason that most cell phone companies were moving to unlimited plans because of the amount of data that can be transferred.

All these unlimited plans are actually limited. 20GB or so on every major carrier not named T-Mobile. If we actually streamed 4k video, these limits will be hit in basically an hour.

Large wireless carriers such as Verizon and ATT are very sensitive to mobile pricing as that is the majority of their profits. They will keep it metered until someone changes the paradigm

This post was edited on 1/8/19 at 11:51 pm

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