From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 12:31:31 AM UTC-6, Paul in Houston TX wrote:   
   > All of us poll the modems at least once per day with a few hundred bytes   
   > of data each way. We don't need 10 gigabyte modems. A 1 megabyte modem   
   > would work just fine. Each phase out means less and less distance. A   
   > 2G analog would go for miles. A 3G was good for maybe 8 miles. A 4g is   
   > good for about 5 miles under ideal conditions. A 5G is good for a few   
   > thousand feet. Industry would need billions of 5G repeaters, each   
   > needing electric power. 4G and 5G will likely co-exist for a long time.   
      
   5G is not one thing.   
      
   5G is a whole stack of different technologies all under the same label,   
   many different bands and different protocols.   
      
   Some of the 5G systems use the same bands the existing 4G hardware does   
   but with different protocols.  These will have about the same usable   
   range as 4G did.   
      
   Some of them DO use higher frequency bands which allow and require smaller   
   cells and these systems will be a huge benefit in crowded urban areas.  But   
   you will not see them outside of crowded urban areas.   
      
   Telco marketing about 5G has worked very hard to confuse the issue and keep   
   people from actually understanding what is going on.  Telcos talk all the   
   time about high-band stuff and tiny cells, but in fact this is something   
   that only a rather small minority of 5G users will experience.   
   --scott   
      
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