5G Mobile Internet has gone live

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Just saw the first people testing the live service (in London, of course).

Hitting 220mbps - that's amazing considering normal BT fibre BB gets you about 60mbps.

Its really hitting the point where the internet could become wireless as a primary service, and cabled as a backup.
Amazing really, that wireless is out-doing cables!
 


Ginger John said:
It's mint but I wish they'd improve normal services first so I can use my mobile phone in my house. Outdoor only coverage here, so I have to leg it up the garden path to take a phone call.
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As my title suggests I’m in Somerset and there are so many blank areas, 3G would be a dream but I guess it isn’t cost effective. I live in a large town and can’t get a signal in most rooms. Also guess the price will hike up yet again.
 
Ginger John said:
It's mint but I wish they'd improve normal services first so I can use my mobile phone in my house. Outdoor only coverage here, so I have to leg it up the garden path to take a phone call.
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Mines the same, can't you set up wifi calling so it uses your home wifi rather than the phone signal to make a call? Works for me
 
somersetgas said:
As my title suggests I’m in Somerset and there are so many blank areas, 3G would be a dream but I guess it isn’t cost effective. I live in a large town and can’t get a signal in most rooms. Also guess the price will hike up yet again.
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I remember years back when Orange first set up at Patchway. I used to do a lot of training for their engineers at a converted farmhouse a couple of miles away towards the Severn estuary. There was no signal in the rooms so they'd traipse across the sheep field doing the classic wave the phone in the air till you got a bar of signal then try to make their calls.

We used to head down the M5 to Devon & Cornwall most weekends, and just got used to turning the phone off once past the Avonmouth bridge as all of Somerset onwards was just a blackout for coverage back then. Sounds like things haven't improved too much over the years, though I do get good coverage down on the beaches these days.
 
sonofagun said:
What can people do differently in their day to day lives with 5G than with 4G?
Serious question btw.
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Like I pointed out, 5G at those speeds is 3-4x faster than BT's Fibre broadband. You could stream 4k content very easily. Video calling would be perfect quality rather than a bit of a ballache.
Butters said:
Fucked up this morning too, they ran out of data. :lol:
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That was my first thought - doing that speedtest would use up all your dad allowance!

Flared Hicks said:
I remember years back when Orange first set up at Patchway. I used to do a lot of training for their engineers at a converted farmhouse a couple of miles away towards the Severn estuary. There was no signal in the rooms so they'd traipse across the sheep field doing the classic wave the phone in the air till you got a bar of signal then try to make their calls.

We used to head down the M5 to Devon & Cornwall most weekends, and just got used to turning the phone off once past the Avonmouth bridge as all of Somerset onwards was just a blackout for coverage back then. Sounds like things haven't improved too much over the years, though I do get good coverage down on the beaches these days.
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I can make phonecalls whilst driving through the Tyne Tunnel these days. Pretty big improvement imo
 
PTR said:
Like I pointed out, 5G at those speeds is 3-4x faster than BT's Fibre broadband. You could stream 4k content very easily. Video calling would be perfect quality rather than a bit of a ballache.

That was my first thought - doing that speedtest would use up all your dad allowance!


I can make phonecalls whilst driving through the Tyne Tunnel these days. Pretty big improvement imo
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If only the Tyne Tunnel ran through rural Somerset.
 
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