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by mytailorisrich 2201 days ago
"Good enough" does not mean anything in itself. Good enough for what?

More and more of the use cases move away from providing higher data rates to smartphones, so yes, oone could argue that 4G is currently good enough for that specific use case, but that's just one among many.

5G is about supporting greater capacity in general (so maybe the same rate as 4G but to more users at the same time, which is important in dense areas), massive IOT, extremely short latency, high reliability. These are important use cases but they are mostly off the radar of the average person.