The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill
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The flashiest use cases are still a fantasy.

The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo…::AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile’s race to deploy 5G has failed to realize its flashiest outcomes while saddling carriers with debt and removing a competitor from the market.

  • chitak166@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    What carrier do you use? Visible doesn’t charge extra for 5G, and it’s probably cheaper than your current plan.

    • stealth_cookies@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 months ago

      You missed that I’m in Canada. The Canadian cellphone space is bullshit owned by 3 main companies and one other that has inconsistent coverage. I’m with Virgin Mobile at the moment which is a cheaper flanker brand of Bell. The only ones that have offered a $34/mo plan with 5G is a company called Public Mobile (owned by Telus) that doesn’t support any international roaming (which is a nonstarter given how many websites insist on horrible SMS 2FA), and Freedom Mobile which has limited coverage even in major cities.