Interestingly that the author can only talk about cities. The effect of 5G will be seen especially in the rural parts of the country where we are dependent on satellite based internet and a weak signal from the nearest cell tower along an interstate highway. No highway, no cell tower. no cell tower, no cell phone. 5G will bring real connectivity to rural areas, but only if there is a major effort to ensure that the infrastructure is upgraded.
How?
The rural electrification agency was supposed to be building out the infrastructure.
There's a cell tower a couple miles away but there's hills in between us and it. We can drive 1/4 mile up the road to the top of the another hill and get one tiny bar, sometimes. Just enough to send and receive texts but phone calls, not so much as the signal is intermittent. 5G, 9G, won't help if it's still intermittent.
“here we are dependent on satellite based internet and a weak signal from the nearest cell tower along an interstate highway. No highway, no cell tower. no cell tower, no cell phone.”
OMG!!! whatever will you do?????
That effort will not be put in. Rural areas just aren’t worth the money for anybody.