cross-posted from : lemmy.zip/post/60202068
Speaking to Bloomberg News at MWC Barcelona, Ekholm compared Europe’s sluggish move to 5G unfavourably to China
“China has already built out a 5G standalone network,” he said.
“Europe has elected to be a museum,” he added. “That’s a choice European citizens have to live with.”
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Literally nobody gives a shit about 5G apart from those that stand to profit from it. It’s too short range to be of any value to most people and 4G networks are good enough for 99% of use cases already.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Uh… if you use mobile data more than a little bit, 5G is WAY faster.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Up to 100 Mbps offered by 4G is more than enough for most use cases. The actual speed of course varies based on countries infrastructure, but the fundemental issue with 5G is the range. As they are high band waves, their range is so limted and easily blocked that you need to have the tower basically outside your door for it connect.
The push for 5G is mainly the companies who missed 4G deployment being able to now reserve new bands and push their way into the market.