Re No “Material Difference Between 5G & LTE”

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Bob Frankston" <Bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com>
> Date: April 20, 2018 at 2:36:35 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net, "     'ip'" <ip () listbox com>
> Cc: daveb () dslprime com
> Subject: RE: [IP] No “Material Difference Between 5G & LTE”
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> This is a clever way to claim victory and to get people to forget all the off-the-charts promises that I complained 
> about in https://rmf.vc/IEEE5GATSC3.
>  
> For example there was a BBC show recently touting the features of 5G including telesurgery. And yes, some VR devices 
> in the same room can get the performance promised but extending it over the network is asking far too much. And it 
> doesn’t make sense that autonomous vehicles will have to depend on being tethered to an extremely high performance 
> network. Doesn’t matter – just call it 5G and everyone accepts that it happened.
>  
> The irony is that 4G actually performed better than promised in that it now can support voice. But that’s thanks to 
> accepting best-efforts VoIP rather than relying on traditional telecom. That should be a hint that we need to embrace 
> the Internet’s model rather than depending on billable promises but that’s all forgotten when we simply accept 5G 
> marketing hype.
>  
> This comes at a steep price because the success of VoIP should demonstrate the value and power of Ambient 
> Connectivity as infrastructure rather than billable pipes. Instead we’re accepting the idea that communicating is 
> inherently expensive despite all the evidence to the contrary. Even if it costs $1000 per household (that’s for brand 
> new multigigabit fiber to single unit homes – far less for radios and dense buildings) that’s a year or two of 
> broadband OR cellular and then we’ve paid it off. Yet we continue to pay year after year without and like a bad 
> payday loan.
>  
> From: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> 
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2018 19:41
> To: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: [IP] No “Material Difference Between 5G & LTE”
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> http://wirelessone.news/10-r/1025-no-material-difference-between-5g-lte
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