Can I replace my internet with 5G?

Ok, 5G is Interesting, But Will It Replace Wi-Fi? Easy answer, No! For the last 10 years, every improvement in carrier wireless technologies was proffered as a potential technology to replace Wi-Fi and the answer was always the same, not yet. We saw it with mobile WiMAX, 3G, and 4G, it will be the same answer for 5G.

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Is 5G home faster than FIOS?

Speeds will, the company says, be as fast as 1 Gbps, which is about as fast as Verizon’s FIOS gets . It’s more than 10 times faster than what the average home gets today. What’s different about 5G Home is that it doesn’t require digging trenches or laying cable to hit those blistering speeds.

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How much faster is 5G over LTE?

In theory, 5G is likely to reach speeds that are 20 times faster than 4G LTE1. 4G LTE has a peak speed of 1GB per second; 5G could theoretically achieve speeds of 20GB per second. These are of course what you might call ‘peak speeds’, we’ll just have to see when 5G is rolled out what the real-world performance is like.

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