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Speed vs Capacity
I just spoke with an HONEST tech about my problems over the entire time I have been a customer. We had a candid and fruitful discussion about speed vs capacity (bandwidth). Finally, someone honest an...
As the old saying goes … TANSTAAFL.
Higher frequencies = shorter range (in general).
Higher frequencies ≈ more ‘available’ spectrum.
T-Mobile - where 5G is deployed has a lot of ‘midband’ 5G spectrum and a decent amount of low band.
Most areas that I've visited that have 5G (5G UC in urban, 5G extended range in rural) don't have capacity issues. A couple of years ago, in at least one area, T-Mobile put the cart before the horse, deploying 5G in a rural area, but still had only T1's as backhaul. That was fixed 8 months later after a CPUC complaint.
