On 3/Jan/20 20:35, Keith Medcalf wrote:
How absolutely awful that must be, to always be relegated to slow and insecure childrens band. I turn off childrens band (WiFi) on my phone with extreme prejudice and it stays that way. I have yet to meet a childrens band network (WiFi) that was worth connecting too.
Then again I don't play on my phone ...
I guess the point is that there is an opportunity to improve the quality of dodgy wi-fi deployments because there is a need to serve more eyeballs more quickly, and 5G, while promising, just has too many unanswered questions right now. So since money has to be blown, where do we blow it? Needless to say, at least on my iPhone, (certain) updates and downloads are generally only done on wi-fi networks, because they are trying to protect users from expensive data costs. GSM data currently works today because of the artificial data caps, i.e., folk self-police. Open it up and I doubt it would be any different from poorly-deployed wi-fi. But the problem is the kids don't want to pay for data, and they don't like being limited with artificial data caps, and they are the ones driving what the Internet will look like for their generation. So what gives? Mark.