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Originally Posted by tomsem
I wish ‘we’ were not so impatient for 5G. There are a lot of issues to work out, not the least of which are cybersecurity, e.g.:
http://lawfare.libsyn.com/tom-wheele...ecurity-for-5g
The benefits are years away, and may never come to my (deeply rural) neck of the woods. |
In general, customers don't worry about such things, they just want faster speeds.
5G was never going to provide benefits in rural areas. It's coverage area per cell tower is much too small. It works a lot better in urban areas where there are lots of places to put mini cells.
My sister is in the same boat as you. Heck, she barely has cell coverage. The good news is there is a business model where 3rd party carriers are building cell towers in rural areas and renting space on them to the big boys. She was just contacted by a company that wants to build a tower on her land to fill in the gap in coverage there. Who knows, in a couple of years she might have LTE service. Plus, technology is improving to the point where they can squeeze more and more bandwidth out of existing services.