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Originally Posted by bbxxl
People often ask why we need 5G when 4G is far enough, as they did when 4G came in WRT 3G.
It may be fast enough for what we have now but that is only because they can’t imagine what we will have in the future.
Who was it that said, when he first saw a telephone, “I can see a time when every town will have one”?
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I don’t think anyone doubts 5G and eventual successor technologies 6G.
The scepticism comes from trying to resolve a problem that - arguably - doesn’t exist. How to efficiently broadcast linear television into the future.
This technology - if adopted - could. However there’s a number of issues - not least the transition would take years. 5G coverage isn’t at the levels of DTT and will not be for some time. In addition the high bandwidth 5G spectrum there is most demand for is up in the GHz range not the sub 700mhz range.
That said money talks but whether the MNOs are about to put their hands in their pockets to pay the eye-watering amounts seen in the 3G auctions or not remains to be seen.