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So does this mean 5G will actually be good soon?

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You can just turn 5G off in the settings

This is only referring to India right? Verizon 5G ultra wide band is amazing if you’re right next to one of the small neighborhood towers on every block.

5G is just slower 4G

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Exactly. And don't forget too to turn off 2G on the Pixel just in case for security reasons.

This article's for India but I live in a major US city and have had to disable 5G because it is consistently such garbage

A lot of good such blistering download speeds are when they include multi-second pings

IIRC some phones you can’t and my version of iPhone and provider I couldn’t switch it off

They said iPhone 6 to the 13

That’s a bummer. Good to know.

What security reasons?

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-users-can-now-disable-2g-to-block-stingray-attacks/

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Do you live in India? If so, yes, otherwose no. That's what the article is about.

Guys who are using 5G in their countries, I have a few questions

1. Why do OEMs like Apple, Samsung and others need to send an update for 5G to work, the carrier who is testing 5G should ideally be sending a carrier update

2. iPhone 14 bought in India, will it work in 5G cities abroad.

3. I have an 14 Pro India variant, it does not show 5G in settings, my friend brought a US iPhone 14 Pro in India and it’s also not showing 5G selection in settings

Is apple going to send an iOS 16.1.01 update for Indian phones. How was it for you guys when your country shifted to 5G

I'm not going to lie, I thought it was just poor infrastructure on our telecoms end. 😬 Glad to know it's much more in-depth than that.

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>can’t understand why the transition was botched as it was

Marketing and money.

>Why do OEMs like Apple, Samsung and others need to send an update for 5G to work, the carrier who is testing 5G should ideally be sending a carrier update

I imagine that the 5G it comes supported with isn't the full 5G spectrum. So the update should be telling the radio control firmware to operate on the full spectrum, and then carrier updates can pear that down with a list that the handset can operate on for the carrier in that region.

Ok, but tell me, if a person buys an iPhone or a Samsung device in India and travels to country where 5G is available, would he be able to use 5G.?

Edit: aren’t 5G bands standardised? And devices are made with the capability to support most common or most of the bands.

It sounds really weird that Indian iPhones need a special update to work with Indian 5G networks.

I recently travelled to south east Asia and used 5G on Samsung and apple devices, with their local sim. However here in India it’s like waiting for an update from either the carrier or the oem.

5G is to better use the spectrum so the carriers can support more devices. It was never supposed to help an individual consumer.

Yes, if the carrier uses 5G bands that your iPhone supports.

5G bands are standardised, but not all carriers will use the same set of bands.

It isn't lol

Yeah, standing next to a 5g tower is really practical.

Meanwhile, I'm in my house. Surrounded by houses, walls, & the only tower that I've seen was on the freeway.

5g is slower than 4g.

I find this interesting. If I drop from 5G to LTE my phone becomes almost unusable.

Suckers! I've had 5Ge for years!

5g is on a wavelength that is more disrupted by things like walls and buildings than 4g is.

Phone manufacturers have per-carrier configuration packages that enable various functions in the device based on what the carrier wants and supports within the network. Things like MMS, hotspot, voice over Wi-Fi, and other features can be configured this way. If a phone supports a function, but the carrier doesn’t and plans to support later on, the phone carrier bundle can have that function disabled and then deploy an update later to enable it.