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> Things like TikTok wouldn't exist without the abundant bandwidth offered by LTE.

And this is valuable? If you dig a big hole in a public space people will fill it with garbage before long.

Technology should be driven by need. Building bigger pipes, bigger roads and bigger holes is just asking for more garbage to fill it with. Let's start with problems that are worth solving.

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Entertainment is many people's primary use for their phone. You might not agree that it's worthwhile, but then that's often touted as a strength of the internet -- new and creative applications can spring up based on anybody's wacky idea, and either flourish or die. There's no need to justify their importance to anyone.

LTE was not invented to create TikTok, it was created for other reasons, it just happens that TikTok could fill LTE with garbage. Just all tech that depends on other tech does this.

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