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It seemed like a bunch of hype from the beginning to me. I looked up the specs of my old Motorola phone from 2017 back when 5G was a new topic, and the 4G LTE modem in that old phone is capable of 600Mb data speeds. But no 4G LTE connection ever gave me much more than 40-50Mb on speed tests.
5G rolled out and I have a 5G phone (not because it's 5G but because it's my new phone) and whenever I do a speed test, the results are no better than 4G LTE. But there was a trade-off for the "upgrade" to 5G - the cell towers for 5G have much less range than the 4G ones do. So not only do I receive no improvement in speed but the towers' range is downgraded.
This is 5g, sitting inside a house with aluminum siding in the very spot where I never saw above 5mbit with 4g. Far from hype.
Not really, my old Motorola from 2017 could have beat that speed tests with its 600Mb capable modem, if the telephone carriers wanted to grant that much bandwidth.
It's all about their shitty implementation. What you think is a "5G speed" was already possible long ago but they didn't let us have it.