It’s Time To Rethink 6G.
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I like nationalising industries, but here in France, privatizing France Telecom made Internet and phone prices much lower.
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Only because it is highly regulated. The FAIs have to allow everyone access to the network. Free wouldn't exist if it wasn't for that.
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A part is thanks to free (the company) refusing to oligopole up the prices.
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True, but nothing was stopping the public company from lowering their prices and improving their service.
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You rake in billions every year...?
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Society does indeed. Hydro Quebec gives back something like $3B a year that is reinvested into various government services.
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just as there may still be executives or world leaders who continue to look forward to spanning the globe at supersonic speeds.
They should stop. Their luxury makes the earth warmer faster for everyone.
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My friend, most base stations got fiber backhaul before 5G even existed. We are well beyond that problem.
In fact, it is not uncommon in 2025 to have fiber fronthaul from the remote radio (at the mast) back to the "cloud" where the actual base station is virtualized and/or software-defined (at the data center).
The usable signal issue is a whole other complex can of electromagnetic worms and in contemporary times is a side effect of how 5G NR is sort of "bolted on" to 4G LTE. It is not dissimilar to the growing pains that mixed 3G/4G networks had.
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That's a cool resource. Ty
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Do you know what the signal bar on a phone actually represents? My commute has quite a few areas with good (full or almost full) 'signal' but with the no internet exclamation mark.
That's why I have assumed it's a bandwidth to the mast problem.
Ultimately, phone networks are not built to cope with commuter trains
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It's like fiber rollout. Won't happen except for the rich neighborhoods meanwhile the telcos take all the money meant to help them roll it out nationwide and spend it on infrastructure except fiber.
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Do you know what the signal bar on a phone actually represents?
Thoughts and prayers. It will even lie about the technology in use (e.g. it may display "5G" while connected to a "4G LTE" cell if that cell supports 5G EN-DC, regardless of if the feature is actually in use).
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They make phones with external antennas, but those are a few thousand dollars, but even a small screw on SMA antenna could extend the range of your phone by a few extra miles / kilometers depending on where you live.
Only if there were affordable options that existed.
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I dearly miss my little mag mount antenna for my nokia 5120. Couod make an analog phone call from anywhere in the county. Cant do it today really
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I think 4G is capable of enough speed, but doesn't always deliver even close to it. So really the preference would be something that can increase the minimum typical speed more than focus just on maximum speed. Presumably that means good signal range and penetration.
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You mean in the like nineties?
But how could they fight against the state controlled monopoly making stuff like this !
Jk, fun times actually
