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Only thing I know, it was installed while everyone was hiding at their homes from deadliest virus ever. Even in my shithole they managed to put couple of 5G towers while strict quarantine measures was rolled out.

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It's the 5th generation cellular protocol, not counting other technologies like AMPS/FDMA, TDMA, iDEN, and CDMA.

GSM GPRS/EDGE HSDPA LTE 5G

Fun fact, Sprint's 2.5GHz 5G network was shut down in 2020 due to the T-Mobile takeover. T-Mobile uses 600MHz for their 5G.

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Only in places they own 600mhz spectrum. Spectrum is sold in blocks regionally to the highest bidder. Thats why you will have fast internet but shitty service in one town, great coverage but slow service in another.

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True, but 600MHz is T-Mobile's "liked" band for 5G deployment. They also deploy on the following bands, but who cares since 5G has the reach of a dead donkey:

2.5GHz 24GHz 28GHz 39GHz

The fact that they can even make those higher bands work with a consumer device is akin to black magic.

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I haven't seen any high spectrum stuff in the u.s. we usually reserve telecom from 700mhz-2100mhz

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T-mobile has low band (n71 600 mhz), mid band (2.5 ghz n41) and high band (ghz range) 5G. Low bands go longer distances but carry less data than higher bands. 2.5 goes reasonably far (several miles). Also 5g can transmit better with a weaker signal. I had a shit n41 signal -110 db but was able to download at 200-300 mbps.

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I've never been able to catch a 5G signal that was worth a shit. I just turned it off.

I'm not downloading anything on the phone except for Poal Shitposts, so LTE is fine.

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Broadcast power, more powerful than what has been broadcast in the past. Also, kills birds and gives us cancer.

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Birds aren't real.

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Bird law is real

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Birds aren't real, so bird law can't be real.

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Also, beam forming e.g. the Tower of Sauron when it sees the ring.

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The hype is that a lot of people who don't understand physics are very scared of it. What they don't understand is that it's like being afraid of TCP/IP or any other communication protocol.

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Why should I not be scared of it?

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Because 5G is just a communication protocol. Unless you have cells that are programmed to decode messages in the 5G format, radio signals carrying 5G will not affect you any differently than radio signals carrying 4G, 3G, 2G, CB radio, television, or any other format.

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It's fake and gay.

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It's a mix of technologies so when people say we've had it for ages already, they're probably referring to the type of 5G tech that is basically rebranded 4G.

The signal type that some biologists are worried about is the high energy mmWave type, which only travels short distances but can also be focused into an intense beam and used to disperse rioters (see also: Havana Syndrome). Traditional phone signals are microwave rather than mmWave.

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Why would anyone need that many Gs?

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Because we need all the Gs.

She really wanted the D, though.

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Why didn't you give it to her?