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Good Better 5G

Mobile communication has only improved up to now, but 5G is something different. It would be hard to miss the headlines about the advent of 5G, from claims about how fast it is, to concerns that one company's dominance may pose a national security risk. There’s certainly some truth to this but, like most things, there’s a bit more to it than that.

Even if technology is not your preferred subject there are some considerations for everyone before simply accepting the coming changes. Doing so might avoid a repeat of privacy issues that now challenge us, after handing over all our data to the likes of Facebook and Google, in return for supposedly free services.

First the good news. 5G is going to offer much faster transfer speeds and almost no delay (latency) in opening web pages. At its full potential, videos will play at high resolution with no buffering,

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