A Plea for 5G
It’s been all over the tech blogosphere recently that South Korea plans to unleash a tantalizingly fast 5G network for its citizens.
Well that’s great and all, but just how fast is this supposed 5G network? It’s only one full G better than what our friendly neighborhood U.S. Telecom companies provide, so is it really that big of a deal?
It turns out that it is a big deal.
The 5G network is expected to be 1,000 times faster than the existing LTE network…Users can download an 800-megabyte movie in just one second.
Holy Bandwidth, Batman!
The fact is, the United States lags heavily in the connectivity race, and this news should be a wake-up call to all of my fellow techno-enthusiasts. If we are to remain a technology superpower, we must catch up in terms of our connectivity.
It’s simply embarassing that 20% of the population here in the US aren’t online. And furthermore, the country that is responsible for most of the revolutions responsible for starting this, the age of the internet, ranks ninth in terms of average internet speed.
Let’s get our shit together, America. The home of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and countless other tech innovators should lead, not lag, when it comes to pushing the limits of internet connectivity.