finlo Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 9 minutes ago, swoopy2110 said: Its keeping the mobile network up to date though. We're lagging behind hugely. We're miles behind, places like Norway are already on 10G networks. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyDave Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 3 minutes ago, A fool and his money..... said: I think you're confusing 5GHz with 5G. Nope 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genericUserName Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 6 minutes ago, CrazyDave said: Bluewave. But not for personal handsets like I said Fairly sure that you must have known that I was asking when we would get 5G. Could we stick to that question? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyDave Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 7 minutes ago, A fool and his money..... said: Some bullshit from fantasy Dave coming up. 6 minutes ago, A fool and his money..... said: I think you're confusing 5GHz with 5G. https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/business/the-island-now-has-its-first-live-5g-network-609110 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cambon Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 12 minutes ago, finlo said: Because it would make the current fibre rollout obsolete? EXACTLY! It is just that 95% of people don’t realise how fast 4G can be, and how slow 802 wi-fi can be. They just think faster is better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A fool and his money..... Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 2 minutes ago, CrazyDave said: https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/business/the-island-now-has-its-first-live-5g-network-609110 Fair enough, I guess you have to be right the odd time. Not really what the OP had in mind though eh? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyDave Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 (edited) 3 minutes ago, A fool and his money..... said: Fair enough, I guess you have to be right the odd time. Not really what the OP had in mind though eh? No, but I said that in my responses before you started taking the piss. I was very clear it want for personal handsets. Fair play for admitting you were wrong though. Edited January 5 by CrazyDave 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chie Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 4 hours ago, genericUserName said: Does anyone have an update re a 5G rollout? What is the delay? For huge numbers of people across the UK and mainland Europe 5G now provides a perfectly acceptable alternative to the need for a fibre connection. If you look back to al the hoo hah a couple years ago, it's probably a mix of things. Paranoia tinfoil hat brigade kicking up a storm thinking 5G is going to microwave their one shared braincell. MT probably aren't in a rush as people like me would absolutely stick with the unlimited mobile data contract and tether rather than have home internet installed. And finally, it's probably a lack of available workers. They are already in the middle of a 55 year upgrade to fibre, adding 5G on top of that is probably more work than they can handle right now. I fully expect the UK to be on 6G before we get even a sniff of 5G, we might even skip 5G entirely at this rate and just get 6G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 It's taking ages to fit all of the nanobots into the 5G towers so they can enter your brain. That's what I heard anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barlow Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 The Isle of Man was the first place [Jeremy Clarkson voice] in the World to roll out 3G dontchaknow. We nearly got to do the film The Kings Speech too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 10 hours ago, genericUserName said: Does anyone have an update re a 5G rollout? What is the delay? For huge numbers of people across the UK and mainland Europe 5G now provides a perfectly acceptable alternative to the need for a fibre connection. Large parts of rural UK don't have 5G as there's no real need for the bandwidth. I'll not see 5G for quite a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 12 hours ago, swoopy2110 said: I asked MT this question in 2020. The response was that they have no plans to move forward with 5G until the rollout of fibre was completed. By which time the rest of the world will probably be on to 6G! Same response here when I asked. Meanwhile, even developing countries have it already. My Manila sim is 5G. 20 quid a month for loads of mega fast data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A fool and his money..... Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 The only things MT lead the world in are ripping people off and providing extremely poor service. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Well, don't know about 5G but I haven't been able to use e mails on my lap top for over a month. When I try, a message appears saying there is an ongoing problem which will shortly be fixed. When contacted, Manx Telecom informed me that there was a glitch that they had been trying to fix but they were finding it difficult to figure out! What hope for 5G? Strangely, I can get e mail on my phone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillside Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Seems that the 4G system has broken as well? My iPhone cannot connect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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