Gotta love the non testable features.

"Can we place a test call?"
"Why would you want to do THAT?"

Call the nonemergency number and ask them how they want you to handle dialing the emergency number. Usually it's "yeah we got you, just call it and confirm it's not an emergency". Phone techs do this all the time.

I hope 6G turns everyone trans instead

I wonder if the people has believed the 5g conspiracy fantasies feel remotely foolish

Obviously are intellectually and or mentally diverse so maybe this was just one more inevitable step to total downfall

Lol keep dreaming

The only way that would happen ... is if Palantir gets a backdoor large enough to fit all of Alex Karp's ginormous forehead

It was always meant to be great in dense areas, which it is, but marketers went all apeshit promising that it was going to be the second coming of Christ. Instead they should have shut the marketers ina corner and called it what it is, an enhancement to 4g. That 4g and 5g would hand off interchangeably.

This is why you should never let business dictate tech. They think they know what they're talking about but they don't, and end up pissing everyone off.

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.

Yes, also, it should be criminal for home internet providers and phone service providers to conflate, directly or by implication, the "G" in 5G (fifth generation) and the "G" in 10G (ten gigabit).

I saw a commercial one day that went something like "Our competitors only have 1G; we have 5G. Don't you want to have the most Gs? We have the best Gs, no one has Gs like us. Don't settle for inferior Gs, call today!"

I remember commenting on the switch from 3g to 4g back around 2009 or so and they were already being deceptive in a lot of ways back then. Telecommunications has been a cesspool for decades.

5g is rebranded 4g during the rollout for 4g most providers couldn't hit the bandwidth targets so they branded things 4g LTE or 4g+ to denote it wasn't actual 4g. when they caught up and could actually support 4g they realized everyone thought lte or + were better because of course more things = better so they just changed it to 5g

I hate to tell you this, but 3G was a lie too. 3g should have been good to 100mbps.

Oh? Maybe I'm interested after all...

well because you have to actually change the equipment and not just put a label on it.

I get the joke but 5 and 6 are not interoperable.

They certainly shouldn't be allowed to sell 6G contracts when they've got the grand total of four towers up and an estimated completion plan way off in 2039.

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades

We should follow in the footsteps of many tech companies and stop numbering the Gs in favour of tagging on the year they were launched. So next year we wouldn't get 6G, we would get G2027. Sounds much cooler, doesn't it?

I'd like a different letter while we're at it as well. I think q would be good. I want 2q data.

We did. Years ago. Pre-cloud!

Roaming in 5G is definitely a step up from 4G. I don't know the exact tech behind it, but the home region profile is replicated while roaming, meaning you get lower latency and faster speeds. In 4G and prior, the user device had to call back home, which would send back the data, and if you're in another continent it means 200ms+.