Has 5g brought anything positive to this world? So much hype but all it seems to have done is make flying more unsafe, create more ugly towers in cities and discharge my phone faster. Seems like boondoggle territory to me.
5G has not appreciably made “flying more unsafe.” If anything, this is a good push to start updating altimeters to spec (installing bandpass filters, better testing) which actually will make flying more safe because currently these altimeters are susceptible to out of band frequencies.
Every damn time.
Sometimes I'm able to mess with the network settings to turn off 5G and go back to 4G, and then my phone works fine again.
https://www.salon.com/2022/03/14/how-5g-could-send-weather-f...
The central issue here is greed. The bands used for science (like 23.8 GHz) are critical, but not enough concern was given to them, so neighboring bands were auctioned off without proper consideration of consequences from interference, due to lobbying pressure from telecommunications companies. From the article:
While the FCC's 2019 auction of the 24 GHz spectrum band generated $2 billion in revenue for the Department of the Treasury, the costs from severe weather could be much greater.
This is the type of unintended consequence that comes with privatization of government services. What looks like a cost savings in the short term ends up being a cost increase in the long term. See also: the commons, natural monopoly.