{"video_id":"KvfdBdZgE-Q","title":"Answering your Questions about 5G...","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2020-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":392,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":7.12,"text":"last time we partnered with t-mobile on a video about 5g you guys had some fair","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.56,"end_s":11.28,"text":"questions so we're back again sponsored by t-mobile to address them and shed","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.2,"end_s":16.96,"text":"some more light on the current state of 5g it's the weekend of this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.0,"end_s":19.84,"text":"oh no i can't the massive contest","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.16,"end_s":24.96,"text":"and thousands of people are going to be converging on the stadium behind me some","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.24,"end_s":27.359,"text":"of them equipped with 5g phones 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but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":371.759,"end_s":378.16,"text":"this is one of those times where if you are in the market for a new phone you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":376.56,"end_s":383.52,"text":"should be looking at the future-proof option t-mobile's 5g network has massive","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":380.96,"end_s":387.12,"text":"low band coverage today with other bands coming soon so thanks again to t-mobile","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":385.68,"end_s":393.68,"text":"for sponsoring this video if you guys enjoyed this one you can check out the previous one where we were walking","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":389.759,"end_s":393.68,"text":"around new york i'll see you guys later","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"last time we partnered with t-mobile on a video about 5g you guys had some fair questions so we're back again sponsored by t-mobile to address them and shed some more light on the current state of 5g it's the weekend of this oh no i can't the massive contest and thousands of people are going to be converging on the stadium behind me some of them equipped with 5g phones naturally i am one of them so i've actually got 5g devices from both t-mobile and one of their competitors and i'm going to be checking out what the 5g coverage looks like here in the miami area so t-mobile is using a combination of their low-band 600 megahertz 5g and millimeter wave while their competitor's rollout is focused entirely on millimeter wave that should give us great speeds but i suspect we're gonna run into some of the same signal drop issues that we did last time around behind us is one of the event spaces for the big contest so we think that millimeter wave 5g has been really juiced up in this area so we're going to go ahead and cold and i are each going to walk walk until we drop our signal our 5g signal we're just walking together all right so if it picks up again you're allowed to keep walking you better watch out for these buildings Colton see you Colton nice knowing you Colton you want something to eat Colton Colton want something to eat and grab you something bring it back i'm coming back i'm coming back for you you know what the thing about old technology is it's always getting in the way of progress so i'm using my phone using my phone think maybe i'll relax in this very comfortable chair here ah see you 5g was nice knowing you now let's try our 5g being blocked by nothing i was standing here a second ago and it just went from 5g to 4g now last time in new york i ended up filming my video just a few days before t-mobile lit up their nationwide 5g network covering over half of the us population so i was only able to show how a millimeter wave only 5g network behaves it's now you see it now you don't quite literally almost any object between the phone and the tower drops you back to 4g well now let's take a look at what happens on t-mobile's low band 5g hold on where was exactly the spot where the other one dropped i think it was like here here here still got it my two phones here uh-oh got that glass in the way oh and the millimeter waves are gone t-mobile 5g is still working though still got it so this is fantastic we've had 5g basically everywhere we've gone today on t-mobile but the funny thing is compared to 4g lte we're not getting otherworldly speeds like it's good we're over 100 megabit but it's not insane that is where some of the confusion came from last time around a ton of hype surrounding 5g has been hyper focused on these blazing fast speeds i mean even we got swept up by it you know wow look at this mobile internet speed in excess of what most people can get to their homes it's crazy but 5g is a lot more than just speed millimeter wave so the high band frequencies between 20 gigahertz and 100 gigahertz is an exciting new component of 5g because that spectrum wasn't already being used for anything carriers could just jump right into it bond together a huge number of channels and then give you these insane download speeds in excess of one gigabit per second but there's a reason no one was using it that performance and in fact any connection at all can only be achieved over short distances and within direct line of sight so i mean in a large stadium or a concert hall where tons of people are taking videos and sharing them with each other it's a complete game changer but the thing is that even within a single building it's very challenging to get perfect coverage so millimeter wave needs something else to fall back on oh and of course it's basically useless to anyone who lives outside of the select areas where it has decent coverage in the last video i explained that t-mobile planned to achieve a mixture of broad coverage high speeds and strong penetration power for indoor use by using high band so that's millimeter wave their existing low band and the mid band spectrum that they're planning to acquire in the future and the comments got absolutely flooded with this comment or some variant thereof so here we go 5g means 5th gen and it's not bound to a particular frequency range low band 5g is 5g mid band 5g is 5g and high band 5g is 5g as long as your device is equipped with a 5g nr or new radio and your carrier is using the same frequencies that your phone supports you are on 5g the big picture benefits looking into the future of 5g include lower latency which is essential for the future of autonomous cars better handling of dense pockets of users like at the massive sports ball competition and then of course faster speeds using 5g versus 4g on the same spectrum at the same width should yield some improvement but it just isn't the main point however like any new technology early adopters are going to have to wait a little while to see the full benefit so you shouldn't be surprised to see multiple 4g bands bonded together outperforming an early 5g deployment especially in terms of a basic speed test run 5g is going to keep continually getting better if you're going to take anything away from this video it should be this if all you're after is faster video downloads there's no reason to throw away a perfectly good 4g device today but this is one of those times where if you are in the market for a new phone you should be looking at the future-proof option t-mobile's 5g network has massive low band coverage today with other bands coming soon so thanks again to t-mobile for sponsoring this video if you guys enjoyed this one you can check out the previous one where we were walking around new york i'll see you guys later"}