5G has been part of our lives and the market for several years, while the industry is already looking ahead to its successor, 6G. But can we say it is fully implemented? An international team led by Northeastern University, with participation from IMDEA Networks, TU Berlin, University of Porto, University of Oslo, Politecnico di Torino,...
I had read previously that the early adopters felt the immediate benefit of a lack of congestion. Once 5g was fully rolled out, you had the same users saturating the same cell networks. 4g was downgraded to a lower priority, making it suck just as bad as 3g.
The other things to consider are that people are streaming much more heavily than 2020 and before, cellular Internet is bigger, and tethering is no longer heavily penalized.
I had read previously that the early adopters felt the immediate benefit of a lack of congestion. Once 5g was fully rolled out, you had the same users saturating the same cell networks. 4g was downgraded to a lower priority, making it suck just as bad as 3g.
The other things to consider are that people are streaming much more heavily than 2020 and before, cellular Internet is bigger, and tethering is no longer heavily penalized.