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Originally Posted by Red Bread
Now. I'm not buying my phone for today, I usually keep them two or three years. I'd imagine Austin will be covered in 5G by then.
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I think that's pretty optimistic thinking to believe "Austin will be covered by 5Gin 2-3 years".
5G's higher frequency waves can't penetrate buildings, trees, walls, etc. From what I've seen, the carriers are going to have to put 5G cell towers almost 1 per every block or two for adequate coverage. Even then it's still almost like satellite where you almost need direct line of sight to the cell tower as any interference with objects and you'll likely be getting not much better than 4G speeds or you'll simply lose the signal and drop down to 4G.