Best answer: Yes, mmWave is making its way to more venues and cities in late 2021 and 2022, but you`ll still spend the vast majority of your time connected to low or mid-band 5G.
Will mmWave 5G be better in 2022?
If you bought a phone in the last year, there`s a good chance it works with 5G. In fact, most of the best Android phones support the tech. Unfortunately, most of these phones only connect to low-band and mid-band 5G; however, using the sort of spectrum popular in LTE deployments. The speed improvements over LTE aren`t as dramatic as many expected of the next generation of wireless tech.
There is another type of 5G that has been slowly but steadily increasing its coverage bringing with it incredible multi-gigabit speeds and the capacity for thousands of devices. This tech, mmWave, was actually one of the first kinds of 5G to be deployed, with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon all deploying at least a few sites to enter the 5G race. Still, progress has been slow and, on every...
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