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		Zak 10 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came ... I'm curious as to why 5G is on the requirements list. 3G made web browsing viable. 4G made streaming video viable. I haven't seen any new applications enabled by 5G on end-user smartphones.

shibapuppie 4 hours ago [–]

Latency and throughput from a multi-thousand (literally, in the age of IOT and M2M) user network, massive MIMO and beamforming that LTE doesn't support, etc.

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