What Is 5G, How Does It Work, and How Fast Is It?

While phones supporting the new 5G cellular standard have been available since early 2019, Apple’s recent announcement of the new iPhone 12, which supports 5G, is the biggest step yet toward developing this standard. With any new data protocol, there’s a chicken and egg situation: there needs to be both infrastructure and devices capable of supporting the standard, and the iPhone 12 will accelerate the installation of new compatible hardware.

But what exactly is 5G? Is it much better than 4G? How does it work? And is it really as fast as Apple suggests?

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