It wasn’t a health concern. The only concerns for 5G were long-term practicality, energy and service costs and shorter coverage.
5G was supposed to be made for robots, IoT and wireless home internet.
I haven’t tried 5G, but it seems that the expected speeds would be the same as 4G in early days.
My 5g speeds regularly top 300mbps.
4g topped out around 50-75 for me.
Check out what comparable internet speeds cost in Australia
TBF, I pay approx 100 USD for 300mbps down and 25 up for home internet service. Back when I lived out in the sticks I was tethering to my cellphone because the only thing available was dialup ISP’s.That was on the order of a couple mbps down and kbps up. It’s probably not to the extreme that Australia is but there are definitely still places here with no internet service, though they are shrinking.
Wasn’t NBN supposed to be a national broadband network (isn’t that what NBN stands for) in Australia? I seem to remember watching something on TV about it some years ago, but it was plagued by bureaucratic bullshit, and corporate greed? I could be wrong, it’s been a while since ive thought abut Australian broadband services.
I think 12/1 Mbps runs around $60 a month in Australia. It’s possible to get it a bit cheaper but those are usually plans that have a data allocation.
Wasn’t NBN supposed to be a National Broadband Network
Yeah. Apparently it was killed by lobbying to ensure dependence on cable TV and traditional news media. It’s not entirely different to what happened in the US that one time.
still convinced phone companies started making 4g worse to get people to buy 5g plans
5g is faster but a massive battery stick so I keep it off unless I’m downtown
The problem has nothing really to do with speed its capacity. At least in dense city areas 5g works out a bit better by having lots of small 5g towers rather than one big range tower. 4g in London for example simply didn’t work too many big buildings and too many devices.
For more rural or sparsley populated areas is doesn’t have anywhere near as much of a usecase as a normal cell tower can cover the region fine.
Also we got shit 5G cos of china scare its not Huawei 5G that was supposed to be installed.
5G is actually two completely different radio technologies under one brand name. One of them is just the same thing as 4G but like a little faster, which is probably what it means if you see a “5G” by your phone’s connection strength meter. The other is what people worrying about 5G actually mean, millimeter wave. It’s capable of much faster speeds in an ideal case, but that ideal case involves direct clear line of sight from the device to the tower, with no buildings or trees or hands holding the phone in the way.
5g didn’t bring the widespread adoption of everything being connected that it was sold as, but it’s way faster than 4g and definitely worth it.
It’s faster but that doesn’t matter to me and 5g is attenuated much more by people and buildings which does matter to me.
My understanding of 5g is that it was going to be rolled out in Western countries like it is in China, but then there were “security concerns” regarding huawei so they stopped building towers and started selling high speed 4g as 5g. I have no idea where I heard this from though so it could be all incorrect
