Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Whatever Happened to Millimeter-Wave 5G?" video.

  1. Called this as soon as I heard about the technology behind it. This was always going to happen, no matter what 5G evangelists told you. This tech is really dark magic, but the fundamentals of it isn't. Reason why if you had a basic understanding on how 5G works inside the spectrum, in comparison to it's predecessors or other type of wireless communications, you'd know it had no chances of scaling up the way it's predecessors did. So, the actual problem with 5G is the problem with most other new-ish tech that is coming out in the past 20 years or so - it's overhyped to the point of being just plain fraudulent in it's advertisement. As we moved towards a line goes up late stage capitalism system that needs to always lie about the promises of upcoming technologies, feeling more like political campaigns rather than tech announcements, what happened when 5G was announced was an unmitigated disaster. The propaganda was so absurd and so misinformed that the majority of the public got out of hearing about 5G understanding less on how this whole thing works. Among the reasons why the misinformation campaign on 5G and Covid caught on as it did. While still being a good shift up that should happen overtime, the telecom industry and all other industries involved hyped this sh*t up so much that it started sounding like some advanced alien technology or something, when reality was far more constrained than that. Providers used the whole hype to scam costumers with their 4.5G crap or 5G+ bs, this was far and wide promoted in industry trade shows as a huge leap in evolution that would make smartphone Internet feel faster than home Internet, people speculated about the death of home Internet as everyone would have a 5G modem that would attend everyone's need, and all this BS that came trailing with it. But understanding the very basics on how it works would be plenty to get all of that was just a huge pile of bullsh*t. It was just a new evolution in what we have now that was using a range in higher frequency in the electromagnetic spectrum that yes, could come with higher throughput of data, but at a cost. Which btw, is something that plain Wi-fi already has been doing for ages. And you know the saddest part of this all? The fact that most people who deposited their hopes into 5G to solve problems, actually have issues that has nothing to do with the tech itself, but because of anti-consumer practices by mobile telecoms, aging infrastructure, improper scaling of service, and bad implementation of tech in their own personal devices. All it took to understand this back at the time was comparing your mobile Internet at home, and then trying the mobile Internet in countries that had mobile providers that were less predatory, less monopolistic, and with proper infrastructure maintenance and upkeep. It was the same tech, 4G LTE, but the actual quality of service was so incredibly different that it seemed like they were generations in tech ahead. This is the sad reality of this all. We don't need a leap in tech. We need current tech to be properly implemented and for predatory anti-consumer practices from the industry to stop. And this endless chase for the next big thing is just making people blind to this. It's an endless expectation for the next big thing while we race to the bottom.
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