• InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s more that all should be backwards compatible, so if you have 5g then you still have 2g and it gives you the bare minimum voice and some scraps of data.

    They can reclaim all the spectrum for 3 and 4g (which is a lot) for 5g, while leaving some of the barest functions working for stuff that doesn’t need real data.

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      1 year ago

      You can read in the spec why they chose not to be backwards compatible. The cons were too great.

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        1 year ago

        5g low band actually does, they have down to 600mhz bands which are crazy low with tons of noise shaping, mimo, beamforming and other stuff to potentially bump the snr.

        They’re looking to add 400mhz bands for even more range, but the low bands have less capacity.