Looks like Optus is coming out with 5G home broadband in selected suburbs. Unlimited data at $70 per month. 50 Mbps satisfaction guarantee. https://www.optus.com.au/shop/broadband/5g?SID=con:home:1up:…
Telstra shouldn't be too far out too.
Is this a nail on NBN's coffin?
If this is a sign of things to come, then the Australian taxpayers are going to bear the write downs in NBN valuations.
The YouTube videos I’ve seen say you need to be within 30 meters line of sight to get top speed.
That'd be for the mm Wave stuff we're not getting for a while yet.
The current 5G rollout is higher frequency than 4G (3.6GHz vs 2.6GHz for the highest 4G frequency), therefore has lower penetration and distance than 4G, but not this bad.
I will be switching to 5G when it arrives assuming they can maintain these prices!
I dumped our FttN NBN 6 months ago cause it was slow and comparatively expensive, now running 4G and getting 3 times the speed for 3/4 the cost.
Although I was worried about reliability before making the switch, the only reliability issue we have experienced to date has been the same issue that all Optus data customers experienced last month when International connections weren't being correctly routed.
The only thing that would bring me back to NBN is when they pull out the 60+ year old, rapidly degrading copper that should never have been used in the first place!
The best thing about 4g and 5g home wireless is hopefully it will drive nbn prices down to the ground.
Ozbargainer has spoken!!
Been waiting for this to be available in my area all year.
NBN prices won't go down. They've already been going up in the background. Given the history of the Australian government, they will privatise the NBN upon completion and then we'll be dealing with Telstra level mark ups. Better to lock down the 5G price now.
Is this a nail on NBN's coffin?
Only in high-density suburbs. For 5g to provide the 5g speeds there needs to be towers every 100m or so. Not to mention that once you've got hundreds of users all connecting to the same tower the available bandwidth is going to drop.
Where I live the closest 4g tower is about 450m away. The second closest is about 600m in the other direction. My 4g speeds top out at 20mbps at home on Telstra, and 5mbps on Optus.
The available bandwidth of 5g is greater than that of 4g.
4g ~ 4000 devices per sq km
5g ~ 1 million devices per sq km.
Yes frequencies do not travel as far.
One thing that could be a game changer is carrier aggregation with is often overlooked.
If they were to aggregate it with 4g (if possible) then I'd definitely be on it.
On a CAT6 device I achieved ~30mpbs off peak and 12-18 peak.
I'm currently on a CAT9 ~110 peak and ~40-70 peak.
300m los to a tower.
I have no issues playing FPS and 5g is meant to have less latency.
With the nightmare I've had trying to get NBN, I will jump at this as soon as it becomes available in my area.
6 months of back-and-forth with NBN and still can't get a connection even half as good as my previous Optus Cable.
The biggest drawback to 5G (and 4G and most 3G) is no public IP so no port forwarding, etc. just not enough IPv4s around
it's now 24 years since I first heard that we were running out of IPv4 addresses and we needed to start using IPv6… but still hardly any carriers use it.
Personally I think the real nail in the coffin for the NBN will be when SpaceX get their satellite internet network operational.
And good riddance IMO.
As soon as I heard 5g was 12x faster than nbn fastest service I knew the writing will be on the wall for Nbn. Price is the issue. With most ppl having mobiles why limit your speed.
But these figures mean little in reality though. 12x faster than what type of NBN? 4G at its max rate can certainly be several times faster than 100/40 fibre, but that's under perfect conditions. I've never heard people label 4G as an NBN killer, and similarly 5G in perfect conditions will be great too, but FTTP, Fixed Wireless or even FTTC/N, etc perform well in perfect conditions too.
As other's have stated, competition and a variety of options for consumers are fantastic, but I'm more than prepared of many more years of dropped connections on public transport, slow service in crowds and many more emerging technologies that turn out to not measure up to a decent/cabled network connection.
If NBN doesn't fly, it would be because of its implementation and customer service issues not being fixed. They can't get the promised speed, and customer issues are massive. Added to this, it is expensive.
Technology is catching up. They will need to do something soon. Once people adopt 5G or other alternate technologies they are not going to come back to NBN.
Telstra could do the combination of nbn and 5g. And multiple players could make everything a lot cheaper
Is wireless means i can take the internet with me to anywhere else as long as power on and service available?Or just available limited to the registered address?
The 5G service is supposed to be a fixed service, but I'm pretty sure it'll work on the move provided you're in 5G range which will be the limiting factor.
Good to know.Thanks!
I am probably one of the few who have a good NBN connection. I’m paying $89 a month for highest speed Telstra and unlimited data.
My understanding is 5G signal will drop dramatically if your house is multiple levels or has to go through walls? The YouTube videos I’ve seen say you need to be within 30 meters line of sight to get top speed.
Competition is great, but I think 5G is a few years away from being able to deliver an actual NBN replacement (assuming your nbn works).