I have a serious question.
What advantage would 5 G offer my wife and I, our sons and their wives, and nieces and nephews.
Most of us cut our tv cables a few years ago. We are using very fast business internets and have excellent mobile phone service through TracFone.
Our wifi’s give us rapid speed with our Android phones and chromebooks, my windows 10 laptop is a paper weight on my desks and serves no other purpose.
Our tv sets with the fast business internets, stream the tv we watch with zero problems.
Our Chromebooks enable us to do our banking and bill paying quickly and with minimal help. We use our Chromebooks to set up appts with health care providers and other vendors.
My wife is a typical texting Grandmother, and texts her family from Africa to the East Coast, Mid west, SW and on the West Coast. I pay like 5$ for a ton of texts a couple of times per month for her on Tracfone.
We use both use email and text to organize and set up lunches and meeting dates for the groups we belong to.
We use text and email to communicate with relatives and friends across the globe.
So what advantage will 5g offer us versus what we have now?
Or will it be like the Teslas, a tax break for those who don’t need it and extra costs for the rest of us?
The same could be said from the early web days of the mid 90s to now. What you said you do with your trac phones wasn't possible back then. Heck, you couldn't stream TV until about 10 years ago.
What happens next? Everything becomes wireless. Everything is interconnected. Gigabit speeds to every device.
Imagine paying almost nothing for car insurance? Totally possible with fleets of 5g cars on a highway controlled by a supercomputer. Scary to us, will be totally normal to a child born 10 years from now as they will have grown up with it.
Everything interconnects, everything is smart and with the ability to talk to a supercomputer at gigabyte speeds, anything a local device can't figure out, gets answered instantly. Not only that, there are things that we don't even know are possible once everything gets smart.
Is it all good? No. Will you need it to participate in the economy of the future? Probably. There will be ways to carve out a niche and live it it, but it will be the exception, not the rule. It won't matter as much to those of us born before cellphones and the internet, but to everyone that comes after, it will be as natural as breathing. Everything seamless.