In reality, you might only see a few hundred megabits per second, unless you have a direct line of sight with a mmWave cell tower. This is where lower frequency 5G bands come in. These lie in the ...

How's that possible? Imagine the frequency band of a cell tower as a highway headed to the Cape. Now imagine your cell phone's radio signal as a car stuck trying to get over the Sagamore Bridge.

The master plan proposes adding five to six new towers per carrier in the 700-megahertz frequency band, a transmission range that covers larger areas and is ideal for traditional cell towers ...

Cell towers, for example ... even if that’s not the highest frequency band. This hardware update is already well underway in some locations, most of which are cities, and China has deployed ...

Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell service, however, uses frequencies in the PCS band, around 1.9–2 GHz, which are on the higher end of what traditional cell towers use. Higher frequencies tend to struggle ...