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HappyArtichoke7729 t1_iqmx7ng wrote

Reply to comment by nycdevil in JC has hardly any Verizon 5G Ultrawide coverage - way less than Newark (!) by mmmmyah

Useful for what exactly? Streaming 63 high def videos at the same time while you're walking on the sidewalk?

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nycdevil t1_iqn2mbz wrote

Useful for much right now other than general speed and responsiveness? Probably not. But you don't build new network infrastructure for today's needs, you do it for tomorrow's.

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HappyArtichoke7729 t1_iqn4f2i wrote

I agree, but most needs are tied to a building, not sidewalk or roadway use.

I absolutely agree with you, and think we need MUNICIPAL GIGABIT FIBER that competes with private cable companies. And landlords aren't allowed to disallow tenants from choosing their wired internet utility provider (for cable company kickbacks).

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nycdevil t1_iqn5fxm wrote

I mean, streaming bidirectional AR content running on edge servers would be a good mobile use case that would probably need that sort of latency and bandwidth eventually in a mobile environment.

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HappyArtichoke7729 t1_iqn8bt1 wrote

5G doesn't get better latency than 4G --- only better bandwidth, at the expense of worse / weaker signal.

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nycdevil t1_iqna5rq wrote

Doesn't get better latency currently; theoretically, it can cut latency to single-digit milliseconds to the edge.

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