• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      16 hours ago

      at the time

      Due to RF constraints, there always will only be like 3 or 4 MNOs.
      Hell, in ideal situation, I think a single carrier could be far better. Every carrier is going to have some unused bandwidth, and all of it could be added up.
      Possibly we’d be doing quite well even with sub-1GHz. Let’s say on 4G instead of one 10MHz channel in 800MHz, you’d do 2x20MHz for a total of 40MHz. Now, of course, everyone would be using that, but you’d have far less wasted bandwidth, because anyone would be able to use it too.

      Unfortunately, that could just end up with the side effect of much larger websites. Same as with increased storage sizes and computation power the efficiency of programs just went down.