• floofloof
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    5G has some security improvements, making it harder to track and spoof people’s phones. It also supposedly offers lower latencies.

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      Is this improvement enough to justify massive expense taxpayers incurred to fund telcos CapEx?

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        It also reuses old 2G/3G bands to allow much much higher throughput and therefore more customers per band