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Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotspot – World’s First Standards-Based Millimeter Wave Mobile 5G Device
The World’s First Millimeter Wave 5G Connection is here, thanks to AT&T! We’ve partnered up to deliver the Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotspot, the first standards-based mobile 5G network device in th...
$499? Are they serious? How about an MR1100 Gen3 that actually does LTE-A with 3x and 4x CA, 4x4 MIMO, and 256 QAM? Like one that is as fast as a Samsung Galaxy S9 or an iPhone XS/Max with a big battery, ethernet, and dual 5GHz radios ?!?!
Do you recall the saying, "B.S., M.S., PhD.?"
It goes something like, "Bull Soup, More Soup, Piled Higher and Deeper." of course you cannot pile soup.
AT&T and T-Mobile will both hit rural areas with 5G starting in late 2019. The key is low-band, frequency-divided (FDD) spectrum, which current 5G chipsets don't support. But that will be sorted out later this year. On that spectrum, you should expect about a 35 percent increase in speeds and capacity from 4G, but a major drop in latency. Those networks may not have the capacity for home internet, but they'll change rural life in different ways.
Hopefully the "spring 2019" nighthawk will support "low-band" 5G. With the high cost of the nighthawk customers can not afford to buy a "mmWave only" version in 2019 before it immediately goes obsolete, then rebuy a 2020 version with mmWave + "low-band". As we have already discovered with nighthawk 4G LTE, slipping in new bands to subsequent nighthawk revisions is awful for customers.
Up to 35 percent speed increase over typical LTE speeds may be hard for people to notice it. But at least it is more believeable from a cell tower backhaul perspective. A "bit faster" than 4G LTE is a far cry from the 5G hype machine with Gbit+ data pipes for everyone.