5G IS STILL THE FUTURE
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live. But it isn’t going to do so the way US carriers are currently rolling it out.
The networks we’re seeing aren’t a “fourth industrial revolution,” or whatever
else the carriers are using to pitch 5G this month.
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experience dressed up with a shiny new icon. That’s not bad, but to live up to
their lofty promises about how 5G will change education, medicine, industry,
and home internet, the carriers will need to use more spectrum and better
technology than they’re currently giving us.
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