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Trump campaign pushes government intervention on 5G (politico.com)
4 points by Cauchon 2662 days ago
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What a terrible combination. First you have 5G, which, for the purposes of this conversation is high band 5G and not simply massive MIMO on the normal low bands (which would only increase thoroughput by about 15-20%).

High band 5G has terrible, absolutely terrible, propagation properties. It's absorbed by everything, basically only line of sight, and falls of as 1/r^2 in terms of wavelengths when the wavelengths are absolutely tiny (ie, millimeters).

I can think of no worse (modern) RF technology to try to use to provide broadband internet to rural areas.