Serious 5G speeds!!!!!

[J Dubbs]

I gotta be honest... these speeds in the hundreds are good, but when I was with T-Mobile a year or two ago on their 4G LTE network, I was getting speeds in the 150s-200s. To see 5G bring in 200s-300s... that's disappointing to me when all the marketing talk is like how it will be 1.5G speeds and more. I know that was a fallacy once a network starts to get congested, but with the amount of 5G phones out there - I would think that congestion isn't an issue now and you should be seeing speeds near 1G.

Even when ATT activated 4G LTE in NYC when it was still fairly new, speeds were coming in at like at least close to 100 and over before it got congested.

5G still being new - I expect a lot better. In fact, my speed tests with ATT on their supposedly real 5G - I get anywhere from 10 (lol) to 60. I I think I hit 115 once or twice. It definitely must be on the real 5G network because I've seen the speedtest read LTE on my non 5G phones, whereas it reads 5G with my Note 20 U.

It's a money making ploy to get folks all excited about the shiny new 5G they don't need (4G's fast enough for %99.9 of users) and convince them to start spending more on 5G phones, and eventually raise plan prices across the board for the shiny new 5G nobody needs lol.

 

[o4liberty]

Tmobile dosent charge any more and their speeds are faster then 4g most of the time.

 

[J Dubbs]

Tmobile dosent charge any more and their speeds are faster then 4g most of the time.

They don't charge any more for their 5G phones or 5G plans? If it's the plans the other 2 do charge more for "true" 5G as they call it..... and T-Mobile will too once the hype builds. It sounds like you might already be willing to pay a little more? Not knocking you at all, that's just how businesses play with our minds and emotions. Plans in general will increase across the board. And of course the phones will "always" have to cost more because of the 5G modem required.... even if we never use the "promised" speed increase except for bragging rights and a warm fuzzy feeling lol.