@reC, Opensignal says that its data is based on manual walking tests in downtown US cities, and the combined 4G/5G download speed average takes into account the percent of time that a 5G signal could be found:
The Opensignal coverage maps are considered pretty accurate, because Opensignal does its own tests, but it also uses data collected by its app in Android and iOS that measures real-world download and upload speeds and latency. Its Android app has been downloaded 407.5k times and the iOS app probably adds another 100k - 200k downloads.
thank you for clarifying !
i wonder when we’ll start getting reliable numbers from Linux phones …
2021 is the year we EXPECT Purism to finish rolling out the L5 to everybody who has backed and pre-ordered the phone … and if all goes well (GOD willing) we’ll see more people jump in …
based on the numbers you quoted there seem to be 500k or more phones that can contribute to the graph above … is there reliable data that confirms how many 5G phones are already out there ? in those combined figures i mean …
The data used in that article by Opensignal was collected by Opensignal doing its own manual walking tests in downtown US cities, and not by users of its mobile app. The Opensignal coverage maps, however, do use data collected by users of its mobile app, and I assume that most of those users don’t have 5G phones.
I can’t find any data or articles that back up your assertion. In contrast, nearly every article on the subject says something like this one:
The key reason that U.S. lacks speedier service is the type of the airwave bands that carriers are using for 5G. In most other countries, carriers use the 3.5GHz band, which provides a good balance of speed and availability, but that band has been unavailable to wireless carriers in the U.S.
In the U.S., AT&T and T-Mobile so far are building their 5G consumer networks for lower bands like 600MHz that provide wider coverage with much slower speeds. Verizon uses a much higher frequency, 28GHz, which provides extremely fast speeds but minimal coverage.
The situation in the U.S. should improve, as T-Mobile rolls out 5G in the 2.5GHz band. The federal government also plans to auction more spectrum in the 3GHz to 4GHz band soon, which the carriers will likely acquire to improve their 5G networks.
2/3rds of Americans live in a place where the only 5G that they can get is low-band. T-Mobile’s 600MHz service maxes out around 50Mbps downloads, because that frequency can’t support higher download speeds. In the majority of the US territory, the lack of mid-range 5G bands is the limiting factor.
Once the majority of the US territory has mid-band 5G service, then you can argue that speed to the tower is the limiting factor, but right now the bottleneck is the frequency.
Some biologists say that the field even from 2G and up stress the cells in such a way that although it does not damage the DNA, it does not allow the cell to correct the DNA hence the cancer hypothesis. DNA gets damaged anyway but the cells have a correcting mechanism. This mechanism is inhibited in such fields. I and not saying it is true. I am saying what I have heard from University Biology Professors.
when a cell is slowly dying it is ‘emmiting’ EXOSOMES (these particulates are not alive - NOT really … just contain DNA and stuff necessary for other cells to ‘incorporate’ for future study of the ‘threat’) … it’s like a last note ‘testament’ of a family member …
