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5G Cellular is HERE!

Forget for the moment that very few phones fully support the 5G. Forget that there is no formally adopted world standard on what constitutes 5G. Forget that some carriers are announcing 5G availability on portions of their networks. The real 5G you eagerly await is years away. What? How can that be true?  If you’re like most cellular fans eagerly awaiting 5G, the most you’re going to experience during these early years of the 5G rollout is marginally better LTE bandwidth and download speeds. An encounter with a true 5G experience will be a freakish event. Even then, no one is going to download feature length movies in a few seconds. Why? There are multiple issues: frequency, depth of coverage, back haul, and county/city licensing—just for starters ( here  and  here  and  here ). ·        Frequency  ( here ) 5G is a brand name assigned to a varying set of frequency ranges managed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Early 5G rollouts are using the lower f