Perhaps in some cases, but not in most. For example, I live in a brick house with a metal roof on a farm, near the edge of most mobile providers' cells for the respective towers.
https://www.speedtest.net/result/a/5615500436
Same spot in the house, same device, T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular all delivered reasonable performance to the speedtest.net server of choice for that test.
As I go further rural, the impact is mostly due to coverage, not a lack of capacity. Most 5G won't fix that, with the exception of T-Mobile, who is deploying 5G on a lower frequency.
As I go further suburban and urban, the performances generally increases. 5G will likely be there first, but there generally isn't a performance issue in those situations.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest-IX
http://www.midwest-ix.com
From: sronan@ronan-online.com
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: "Shane Ronan" <shane@ronan-online.com>, "Sabri Berisha" <sabri@cluecentral.net>, "nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 8:14:16 AM
Subject: Re: 5G roadblock: labor
I think you are overestimating the existing network in most cases. And I say this based on first hand experience at $dayjob MNO.
Shane
> On Dec 31, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
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> devices.