Watching TV on 5G mobile?

I am harsh but only at the  hype that people surround 5G with. At its core - providing high speed data with improved latency IN SOME IMPLEMENTATIONS - is a natural evolution, but the hype that tries to fit it to so many different and vague use cases is what I react to.


Some more information has come available since I posted.


Equipment suppliers like Huawei and Nokia continue to hype its use for TV, Autonomous cars, low latency apps and IoT.... Operators like Vodafone and EE/BT have also continued this. Some operators in the US have tellingly now started to undersell 5G including the fact that they don't expect to provide it outside of cities, that its rollout will take quite a long time, its coverage will be patchy, and the level of support for all features that are in the hype will be partial. In most instances this means that 5G is just like 4G and will not be the 'second coming of Christ' for TV, IoT and Autonomous cars. The reality of the deployment of a technology that is actually multiple different implementations depending on spectrum used and type of antennae used is starting to be understood to be very complex. Certainly it is not going to replace DVB-T/T2 infrastructure that is already deployed, nor be deployed in a green field country where fixed connections meet most requirements with edge/remote areas support only be the use case that 5G may deliver on...

I am harsh but only at the  hype that people surround 5G with. At its core - providing high speed data with improved latency IN SOME IMPLEMENTATIONS - is a natural evolution, but the hype that tries to fit it to so many different and vague use cases is what I react to.


Some more information has come available since I posted.


Equipment suppliers like Huawei and Nokia continue to hype its use for TV, Autonomous cars, low latency apps and IoT.... Operators like Vodafone and EE/BT have also continued this. Some operators in the US have tellingly now started to undersell 5G including the fact that they don't expect to provide it outside of cities, that its rollout will take quite a long time, its coverage will be patchy, and the level of support for all features that are in the hype will be partial. In most instances this means that 5G is just like 4G and will not be the 'second coming of Christ' for TV, IoT and Autonomous cars. The reality of the deployment of a technology that is actually multiple different implementations depending on spectrum used and type of antennae used is starting to be understood to be very complex. Certainly it is not going to replace DVB-T/T2 infrastructure that is already deployed, nor be deployed in a green field country where fixed connections meet most requirements with edge/remote areas support only be the use case that 5G may deliver on...