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The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo... (www.theverge.com)
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The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo...::AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile’s race to deploy 5G has failed to realize its flashiest outcomes while saddling carriers with debt and removing a competitor from the market.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The difference between the US and Korea is VAST though.

Korea is just over 100,000 square kilometers, slightly bigger than Indiana, slightly smaller than Virginia.

The US is 9.834 million square kilometers. Installing infrastructure here is an order of magnitude more difficult.

[–] TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes that's the talking point Americans like to use as to why their infrastructure is shit. Ok so why does it work in Europe, as a continent? Why does it work in China? Why does it work in Canada? I can be in the Arctic circle not having seen another vehicle for hours on the highway and have full reception. This is in the mountains in the Arctic in a country larger than the US in an area more remote than anywhere that exists in the US.

The reason it doesn't work in the US is because corporate greed and a population that is ignorant to what it should be. Where's the outcry over the billions of dollars that the ISPs lined their pockets with for the FTTH rollout and never even remotely got close to delivering, gave up, and walked away...

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 year ago

Canada has dead zones, my man. I'm stabbing a guess, but im sure China does as well.

Really, the argument I'm seeing from you just reeks of you being incredibly naive.

Here's all the 5g coverage info of Canada that proves your full of crap, BTW.

https://www.nperf.com/en/map/CA/-/-/signal/?ll=71.52490903732816&lg=-96.6796875&zoom=2