Why All 5G is Not Created Equal

The number of names for 5G is confusing: 5G, 5G Ultra Capacity, 5G Ultra-Wideband, 5G Plus, 5G Nationwide, and more. Why so many 5G names? Why so many 5G icons? What's the difference between all these 5Gs? Well, in this Decodr episode, let me show you by discussing low-band 5G, mid-band/sub-6 5G, and high-band/mmWave 5G.
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Thank you for explaining this. I think most people have been wondering about these differences and really about 5G in general.

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Am glad that the 5G technology is maturing and more and more are joining in to improve their services. Thanks, David 👍🏼👍🏼🍵for the lecture series.

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I work in the wireless connectivity field. I don't care what lies these cellular carriers are attempting to promulgate. I don't expect to have anything close to an actual 5G deployment in my low population area for close to a decade.

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excellent video - looks like a lot of effort went into this and I like how you take us to different areas during the video, keeps it interesting..thanks for all the info in one place dude!

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Wow! 🤯 This is just awesome! Basically 5G is becoming more mainstream and possibly usable anywhere. Thanks for covering and sharing David! Great job!

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[@PGJ81]

This is great its the most simplified way to explain what those icons really mean and what "5G" really is. I hate having to explain to people what the difference is because they always look at me confused. Now I can just point them to your video. Good stuff

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Cleared up the rest of the questions I had about different 5G bands thanks heaps very good video

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Great info and clear explanation! An issue I have is, when my phone believes it has 5G connectivity but there’s no internet connection, it wouldn’t automatically switch to LTE. I am left with no internet connection, so I just turn off 5G completely.

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Still a problem with iPhones and Verizon around here.

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@TheUnlockr 7:45 what carrier is being used for this download test?

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That was really interesting thankyou. I wonder how the 5G rollout varies here in the UK

[@TheUnlockr]

Thank you! And the technology is the same but it’ll be interesting to see when/of mmWave picks up over there and also how the carriers go with their naming structure

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I got 3066 down on my 12 mini but was standing right under the node. Insane

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I live in Orlando Dr phillips area (just north of Disney) and noticed on I-Drive and Sand Lake road 5G and 5G mmWave modes being put up at every intersection. I got 1.2 gigs down being near one of the nodes. They are small cylinder shaped that go on top of telephone poles or sometimes they have their own poles. Some have 3 small boxes under the node for 5G+ (I have AT&T eleite plan).

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Just bought an S23 FE. It uses band n41 (T-Mobile/Metro) as primary band, replacing n2 & n66 for most areas. N41 was rare to find on my S20 FE, like on the red line subway here in Los Angeles. Fastest speed so far was near my home on n41 at 850Mbps.

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How I wish we have it here in my country. Its not even put out nationwide yet, not even sub six or even low band.

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[@matiasmuttoni9044]

The end of the video explained it well. I’m just trying to figure out the part I didn’t get though. Do carriers like cricket or other small cell carriers use MmWave 5G? I’ve only ever had regular 5G on my phone as shown, but I don’t live in a city so I never got to access 5G+ since cricket uses AT&T’s cell towers.

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Who has the best 5G in the Seattle, WA area? Currently with T-Mobile but coverage seems to excellent when it’s not overloaded with people on the network…

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I know so much more about 5g and what the the “Buzz words” mean. Thank you!

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I have one question about 5G in US , is it SA o NSA versions ?

[@jvolstad]

I love Verizon, mmwave. Fast but limited coverage. I wish Verizon would use a different indicator for mmwave. Maybe something like "5Gmm."

[@hawkmankt]

Good work...again. Well described.

[@TheUnlockr]

Thank you!

[@ofskittlez]

If (for example) T-Mobile uses "5G UC" to refer to both sub-6 and mmWave ... how do I know which one I'm on?

[@dontaelovestyler]

Millimeter wave will have speeds usually above 2 to 4 gigabits per second midband 5g you will see speeds between 500 megabytes to 900 megabytes per second with sub 6 5g you will see 50 to 150 megabytes per second downlink same as 4g lte from time to time hope this explained everything

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Hello, David, Is it really only the qualcom chip support this wide range frequencies? I thought Chips from apple support wide range of bands.

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Apple is using Qualcomm’s modems

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Does Vivo x60 support mmWave 5G?

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What is C-band 5G?

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5G is now getting very legit. The low end stuff beats FAST 4GLTE+ by at least 50%. I've seen dramatic improvement in just the past 12-18 months. TMUS find some really great midband. They also set up and deployed it well to boot! It's also coming to all phones, last month, so it's primed to take off.

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Intro was sick as fuck!!

[@blueaeagle11]

I have a question i hope you’ll see this as your video has explained this to me. My brother and i have have iPhone 13s and are on the same plan however we activated them at different times and i believe he received a new sim. His phone receives the 5g UW icon and i have never once seen that on mine. Would a new sim solve this issue? Thanks!!

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It depends on what frequency the device is connecting to the tower with. Since his device is connecting to the towel with UW he could be connecting with 3.5 gigahertz while you may be connecting with the lower megahertz.

[@REAL-UNKNOWN-SHINOBI]

And no a new SIM card would not fix this. Only forcing your device to use that particular frequency would, but sadly Apple locks down the iPhone so much that you simply cannot force the frequencies like you can with an Android device.

[@AnthonyBranch]

If Qualcomm is the only chip that can utilize all 3 bands, what happens to the Pixel 6 that uses the Tensor chip?

[@TheUnlockr]

It’s their modems that do it so just like the iPhones that use Qualcomm modems but their own SoC I’d imagine that’s what will happen with the Pixel line or they’ll just use Sub-6 and no mmWave. Unless Samsung made mmWave work in the US finally (but that would be an announcement during that event so at the moment still no one but Qualcomm supports it here)

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[@roady1710]

Huh.... Got a 5G phone for T-Mobile in the LA area just trying to find out if it's going to work or if it's a farce so far the latter is what it's it's looking like

[@bl00dkillz]

Turned off 5g using iphone 12 pro max on tmobile for battery savings as well what i do with phone doesn’t require hyper fast speeds, would rather have consistent and overall better reception which 5g doesn’t fix P.S: in nyc too

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Just a thought, maybe use your own cup instead of a plastic cup and straw which is then placed in a trash can.... not even recycled. For the environment. Thanks for the video tho, the information is good and well presented.

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Thanks for your concern but in NYC all of the cups and straws are compostable and we all recycle (your building gets fined if you don’t). Regardless thanks for watching the video!

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I have coffee to On my iPhone on AT&T says 5GE

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5Ge is just LTE

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I live down the road from sprint tower so my phone rarely any signal strength issue until switching to t-mobile now there is no nice word to say about it. Next family plan promotion somewhere else I'm gone.

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5g + have more power sar?

[@Figgboii]

8:00 😂😂To be fair you are testing a world where less than 30% of the users are even accessing those 5G connectivity options.

[@jerrypatterson55]

sure you can send data on the same freq its called hopping and a women developed it 80 years ago for the military spread spectrum

[@Broba_Fett]

Wonder how this will effect the Pixel 6 line since they’re going with Samsung’s 5G modem.

[@TheUnlockr]

We’ll have to see if Samsung actually got mmWave to work here in the US (and how good it works if so)

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Do you use t mobile

[@CloudPixel]

I feel like I've seen mediatek modems that can use TMobile's 5g but maybe I'm wrong.

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For sure. They do Sub-6 though no mmWave as of yet.

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[@mikkelnielsen888]

5G+, my phone still runs 4G+ I haven't even reached 5G yet. I think I bought a Betamax phone :D

[@jkelly1701]

Do you think they are trying to confuse us

[@georgelowe9971]

Love how ATT lies with a fake icon on my iPhone SE 2020 saying 5G E lmao my phone don’t have a 5G modern only LTE

[@jimi6335]

Lol yeah marketing crap on there part

[@gautamsaharan2397]

How many 5G bands in Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G Exynos.

[@oa1700]

Pretty sure that it supports all, even mmWave

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[@tengstedt]

So what abort the New iPhones, they don’t support all 3?

[@TheUnlockr]

They do. They use Qualcomm modems after settling their lawsuit with them and antenna and that’s how they get low mid and high.

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qcom always has the best antennas. most people forget about that when they compare benchmarks on socs without talking about that

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[@hummersd]

Good to know; odd that the highest speed doesn't have its own naming, but if it's the most limited area maybe it doesn't need it. Curious, what bar/restaurant has the green water tower art piece?

[@Avgeek1564]

Way over my head!

[@Nerd-tech-news]

AT&T seems fraud to me. How can they name single band 5G as 5G+ ? '+' Should only come if it is carrier aggregated with 2 or more 5G bands. Call it 5Guc / 5Guw /5Gmm etc. But don't mess up H+, 4G+/LTE+ naming standards.

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Haha cool

[@DrivinginNewYorkCityNYC]

5G Aggregation. Also, didn't T-Mobile say they will have it by the end of year. 4 days ago my 5G went to sh!t speed. 1 to 100Mbps d/l. Before the problem I was getting 600-800 Mbps. S22+

[@guttom]

yeah 5g is faster, but LTE is also capable, it might not be as fast as 5g but it gets the job done too.

[@boxingyourbrainsout2206]

I have 5G UC Tmobile

[@jamesjordanjr6175]

I feel like there was a lot of fluff going on here.

[@jewel9458]

I feel ripped off for getting sub 6 5G in my iPhone 12 cuz I didn't buy it in the US where they sell the mmWave version.

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so basically 2G, 3G, 4G is changed to 5G.... its like apple strategy and even better, now i can download my smartphone in 5 seconds to FULL what nonsense

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