The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Read - part the first

It's hard to find, at least for me, the coverage of the various flavours of 5G here in the USofA. What isn't in dispute is that "real 5G", aka mmWave, is as rare as hen's teeth. For reasons not fathomable, Verizon went all-in on mmWave from the git-go, and has reaped the pain. In recent times, it has acquired sub-6/C-band spectrum and works to correct its ways.

When AT&T and T-Mobile began rolling out their 5G networks, they stuck to the frequencies they already used and had licenses for. AT&T deployed its 5G at 850MHz, and T-Mobile rolled out its nationwide network using its 600MHz spectrum. Verizon went the other way and avoided the lower frequencies entirely at first. Instead, it chose the much higher frequency mmWave spectrum, giving it a considerable speed advantage at the expense of abysmal coverage.

So, for the last few years, you've seen adverts from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint crowing about wide availability of 5G without mentioning that it isn't all that much different from 4G/LTE that has been around for about a decade. Verizon, on the other hand, crowed about its mmWave (under changing branding); you just couldn't find much of it anywhere. So, they admited defeat and bought them some sub-6 bandwidth in March, 2021 (the Verizon page lists in the search, but page no longer exists; one might wonder why?).

So, that's the backstory. Today's story is truly mind boggling. The White House, aka Sleepy Joe, is hyping the coming 6G!!

The more limited 5G adoption in the US can also be attributed to the fact that 5G network infrastructure developed slower than expected, Gergs said. As a result, 5G networks are less potent and consumers may see less incentive to pay a premium for 5G connectivity.

No shit, Sherlock. Yeah, 6G will be so much more better.

Never mind that physics has, so far, demonstrated that Real 5G is way too expensive to support other than in cavernous buildings and cavernous stadia. "Yeah, Billy Dick, let's go see the Jets work with Rogers at the stadium and watch it on our iPhone 12!!" Dumb and dumber.