>5G would enable doctors to perform surgery remotely from across the country
I never, ever understood that argument; I simply can't imagine a hospital relying on a cellular network for such sensitive work.
I never, ever understood that argument; I simply can't imagine a hospital relying on a cellular network for such sensitive work.
ps: reminds me that emergency team came with a broken 2G portable EKG that couldn't transmit data to the cardiologist when my mother had a spasm.. driver told me that the device was around 10000 euros, it was quite shocking.
I did see some of those ambulances running multiple streams from different perspectives, though. Is the bandwidth of 4G networks capable of doing that?
Not to mention the sheer density of connections that can be serviced by a 5G radio over an LTE radio.
Maybe the argument was more for government officials, not for people like you.
Presumably they mean doctors can have an internet connection in remote places. But that’s not the same as being far from their patient.
Examples for "wireless" (roadless) transport of physical packets
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipline_(drone_delivery_comp....
Put it simply you have to sell more phones than you did last year (selling less, or even the same amount, isn't enough). If you don't have features to justify that (which you don't, as the very fast smartphone evolution has mostly stagnated), you make them up. 5G being one of them.
They’ve been saying the same exact thing since cellular data was starting to be deployed 30 years ago. Search for the AT&T “you will” campaign from the 90s to see.