I don’t mean to gloat. But I called this about six years ago.
I wrote a report for my executive team at the time as they wanted to understand how our company should utilize 5G.
5G was in the complete hype cycle, and every company felt the need to “do something” with 5G quickly.
I outlined how, unless our company was going to fundamentally change the products and market we were serving, there was no reason for us to spin our wheels on 5G.
In the second part of that report, I had to debunk cell providers' early claims that this new future would provide multi-gigabit wireless speeds to everyone everywhere.
I’m sure one day we’ll get there, but the simple fact that all of these proclaimers glossed over was that mmWave physically can’t work through any kind of obstacle. It's line-of-sight or nothing.
Deploying this in the real world makes no sense.
I always found it disingenuous for those touting this “new wave of technological breakthroughs” to pick and choose the best-sounding bullet points from the three different technologies that make up 5G to make it sound like absolute magic they would soon be serving us.
5G overall is excellent, and it’s an improvement on LTE regarding the mid band capabilities.
But as we continue to envision a more awesome future, we must remember.
You can’t cheat physics.
Thanks. Michael. Much appreciated!