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last time we partnered with t-mobile on a video about 5g you guys had some fair

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questions so we're back again sponsored by t-mobile to address them and shed

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some more light on the current state of 5g it's the weekend of this

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oh no i can't the massive contest

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and thousands of people are going to be converging on the stadium behind me some

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of them equipped with 5g phones naturally

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i am one of them so i've actually got 5g

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devices from both t-mobile and one of their competitors and i'm going to be

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checking out what the 5g coverage looks like here in the miami area so t-mobile

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is using a combination of their low-band 600 megahertz 5g and millimeter wave

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while their competitor's rollout is focused entirely on millimeter wave that

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should give us great speeds but i suspect we're gonna run into some of the

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same signal drop issues that we did last time around behind us is one of the

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event spaces for the big contest so we think that millimeter wave 5g has been

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really juiced up in this area so we're going to go ahead and cold and i are

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each going to walk walk until we drop our signal our 5g signal we're just

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walking together all right so if it picks up again you're allowed to keep

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walking you better watch out for these buildings Colton

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see you Colton nice knowing you Colton you want

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something to eat Colton Colton want something to eat and grab you something

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bring it back i'm coming back i'm coming back for you

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you know what the thing about old technology is

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it's always getting in the way of progress so i'm using my phone using my phone

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think maybe i'll relax in this very comfortable chair here

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ah see you 5g was nice knowing you

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now let's try our 5g being blocked by

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nothing i was standing here a second ago and it just went from 5g to 4g now last

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time in new york i ended up filming my video just a few days before t-mobile

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lit up their nationwide 5g network covering over half of the us population

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so i was only able to show how a millimeter wave only 5g network behaves

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it's now you see it now you don't quite literally almost any object

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between the phone and the tower drops you back to 4g

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well now let's take a look at what happens on t-mobile's low band 5g

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hold on where was exactly the spot where the other one dropped i think it was like here

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here here still got it

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my two phones here uh-oh got that glass in the way

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oh and the millimeter waves are gone

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t-mobile 5g is still working though

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still got it so this is fantastic we've had 5g

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basically everywhere we've gone today on t-mobile but the funny thing is compared

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to 4g lte we're not getting otherworldly

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speeds like it's good we're over 100 megabit but it's not insane that is

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where some of the confusion came from last time around a ton of hype

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surrounding 5g has been hyper focused on these blazing fast speeds i mean even we

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got swept up by it you know wow look at this mobile internet speed in excess of

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what most people can get to their homes it's crazy

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but 5g is a lot more than just

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speed millimeter wave so the high band frequencies between 20 gigahertz and 100

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gigahertz is an exciting new component

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of 5g because that spectrum wasn't already being used for anything carriers

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could just jump right into it bond together a huge number of channels and

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then give you these insane download speeds in excess of one gigabit per

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second but there's a reason no one was using it that performance and in fact

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any connection at all can only be achieved over short distances and within

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direct line of sight so i mean in a large stadium or a concert hall where

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tons of people are taking videos and sharing them with each other it's a

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complete game changer but the thing is that even within a single building it's

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very challenging to get perfect coverage so millimeter wave needs something else

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to fall back on oh and of course it's basically useless

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to anyone who lives outside of the select areas where it has decent

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coverage in the last video i explained that t-mobile planned to achieve a

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mixture of broad coverage high speeds

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and strong penetration power for indoor use by using high band so that's

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millimeter wave their existing low band and the mid band spectrum that they're

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planning to acquire in the future and the comments got absolutely flooded with

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this comment or some variant thereof so

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here we go 5g means 5th gen and it's not

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bound to a particular frequency range

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low band 5g is 5g mid band 5g is 5g and

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high band 5g is 5g

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as long as your device is equipped with a 5g nr or new radio and your carrier is

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using the same frequencies that your phone supports you are on 5g

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the big picture benefits looking into the future of 5g include lower latency

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which is essential for the future of autonomous cars better handling of dense pockets of

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users like at the massive sports ball competition and then

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of course faster speeds using 5g versus 4g on the same spectrum

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at the same width should yield some improvement but it just isn't the main

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point however like any new technology early adopters are going to have to wait

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a little while to see the full benefit so you shouldn't be surprised to see

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multiple 4g bands bonded together

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outperforming an early 5g deployment especially in terms of a basic speed

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test run 5g is going to keep continually

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getting better if you're going to take anything away from this video it should

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be this if all you're after is faster video downloads there's no reason to

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throw away a perfectly good 4g device today but

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this is one of those times where if you are in the market for a new phone you

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should be looking at the future-proof option t-mobile's 5g network has massive

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low band coverage today with other bands coming soon so thanks again to t-mobile

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for sponsoring this video if you guys enjoyed this one you can check out the previous one where we were walking

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around new york i'll see you guys later