Whereas 5G can have downlink speed up to the scale of 20 Gbps and 10 Gbps uplink, practical speed measured on Fiber cables is 100 Gbps . One major drawback with using 5G technology is that each cell/station can have expanse up to a few 100 meters while Fiber provisioned signal can reach up to 70 Kms.
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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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