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Speaking to Bloomberg News at MWC Barcelona, Ekholm compared Europe’s sluggish move to 5G unfavourably to China

“China has already built out a 5G standalone network,” he said.

“Europe has elected to be a museum,” he added. “That’s a choice European citizens have to live with.”

  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Is there really a benefit to 5g for the average citizen? It seems to me that coverage is much more important and europe has that pretty well covered.

    • remon@ani.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      It seems to me that coverage is much more important and europe has that pretty well covered.

      Yeah, Germany is almost done with having full EDGE coverage. Almost.

      • Captain Baka@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Well, yes. Now there’s just around 1.5 kilometers of my 16.5 kilometers work commute left where I have absolutely no network on my phone. We are really almost there. Maybe in 10 years or so when there will be the next generation standard after 5G we will have full EDGE coverage.

        Something something efficiency something technoligical progress. And “Technologieoffenheit” of course.

      • Zahtu@feddit.orgEnglish
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        1 day ago

        yeah, i still remember the remarks “5G bis zur Milchkanne” several years ago by CDU. like who needs this? and who has to pay for it. obviously, with CDU its the citizens that have to pay for it, even though they reap the least benefits. And all that just because the actors pushing for stuff (agrar and tech lobby) don’t want to pay and always go around the “gespenst” of Europe falling behind in tech. As if our agrar producers suddenly could not produce food without it.