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hotpotamus on Oct 23, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and...

I felt the same way during the 5G hype phase. There were all kinds of sales pitches about how it would enable new applications, but I never really got what more bandwidth was supposed to accomplish.

bombcar on Oct 23, 2023 [–]

5G boils down to “cell phones will continue to work in dense cities” and not really anything consumers care about beyond that.

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