In the last year, the major carriers have gradually expanded their 5G networks, turning spotty connectivity, even in the largest cities, into something resembling national coverage.
Once those networks are up and running at full capacity, experts say, 5G connectivity will bring super-fast connectivity to your mobile devices, allowing you to download a movie in just 5 seconds. It will also lay the groundwork for game-changing applications such as smart cities, driverless cars, and robotic surgery.
It may even replace the wired internet connection to your home.
Instead of a modem that transmits WiFi signals, consumers would have a 5G transmitter with millimeter wave technology.
Dish currently owns a decent amount of spectrum that could be devoted to such a network. It's not ideal for everything, though, because, while significantly faster than the low- or mid-band signals used by many current 5G phones, millimeter waves also have a much tougher time piercing walls and traveling long distances.
Because of that, they're much better suited to applications involving smart home devices and wearables than to smartphones.
As part of the sale agreement, Dish gets access to the combined 5G network of T-Mobile and Sprint for the next seven years, buying time for it to build its own network. And the successful rollout of that infrastructure, not to mention 5G technology's much-heralded applications, is the key to transforming Dish into something beyond the budget, prepaid service of Boost, Menezes says.
But he cautions that home networks like the one described above are a long ways off and, if they can't compete on price, they might never become a reality. In the meantime, the promise of 5G may simply make life more confusing for people.
“The bottom line is wireless pricing will not get simpler, and it will not get less expensive for consumers," Menezes says, "despite what the carriers want you to believe.”
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