Was looking on the Telstra page teaching customers about the benefits of 5G and found this gem.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Sounds like an issue with not letting those same low frequencies be used for 4G instead. While it is true that 4G signals can’t quite reach as far as 3G on the same frequency, it’s still about 90%.

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      9 days ago

      Technically that may be true, but we live somewhere that looks like the shire. Shorter wavelengths don’t propagate into the nooks and crannies behind the hills, and that’s pretty much what makes up half the uk. That 90% is a theoretical number, and may be true when you take all the moors and downs and that, but practically there’s a huge amount of area that doesn’t have signal that has days before 3G was taken off line