[LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

[Scott Howard]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:36 AM, Tom Worthington <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
> wrote:

> This "smart city" ... sensors monitoring everything from air quality
>> to pedestrian traffic, even the flushing of toilets. ...
>>
>
> This doesn't add up to enough data to need 5G or even 4G. Sydney's Green
> Square, which is projected to have a future population density exceeding
> Hong Kong, 3G data rates would do.
>

Not everything is about bandwidth.

4G has limits around the number of simultaneous clients a cell can support,
even when idle.  The limits will 5G will be significantly higher.

5G is also planned to require far less power usage on the client, again a
big benefit for IoT use cases.

  Scott