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Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 45 points 5 months ago (5 children)

5G was mostly about cramming more connections into the spectrum and expanding broadcast range (as well as some other things), but it wasn't just about node speed on the network.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    And it ended up posting significantly faster speeds in dense areas where they actually deploy the technology. My phone has hit 4Gb/s on it.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    In a lot of places it got worse. At least I had reliable service inside my house on 2G and 3G. Now that those are gone, I have to use WiFi calling or try to find a spot outside where I may be able to get a bar of 5G if I'm lucky.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    You're more secure using wifi calling anyway.

    Unless you're using 5g NR SA which is the actual 5g - New Radio Stand Alone, which is supposed to be able to function, as the name implies, alone, without any fallback to insecure networks.

    If you're using 5g NR NSA it still requires 4g to function.

    I am in airplane mode 99.9% of the time, using wifi calling (sms/rcs also work over wifi), so my phone isn't susceptible to imsi catchers and such or location pinging.

    Yes, I'm paranoid.

    Everyone should be.

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