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Originally Posted by def
nicely done ad by whichever ad agency did it
for real, screw verizon. one of the companies behind why every house doesn't have gigabit fiber (which i have). no serious gamer is going to play on 5g. can't have every house streaming 4k netflix on 5g.
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Technically, 5G can include wifi and private networks as well, depending on deployment. So in theory at least, your (fixed-line copper or fibre) home router could well be broadcasting a wifi network you hook into, just like you do now, only your phone could hook directly into it, rather than trying to do some bastardised VoWIFI/VoLTE thing. That would constitute being part of a 5G network - if it's built that way.
I'm 100% behind the "fixed line is the far superior tech than any form of wireless", but there are massive numbers of people out there now who game pretty seriously on a home wireless network, and 5G
can be every bit as good as that.
It probably
won't, but it
can.
Also: the old benchmark for Netflix 4K was around 16Mbit/sec... they've since changed their encodings around and it's gotten considerably lower in the last year or so. Sub-6GHz 5G can happily put out about half a gig per stream, and mmWave probably about three or more times that - 1.5Gbit. So: yes, every house CAN be streaming Netflix 4k on 5G. Assuming it's not
catastrophically badly done (which is always possible, but really not that likely.. I'm talking significantly more than the usual levels of 'bad' that comes out of most telcos.)