Do you really need 5G on your phone?

Currently on the Australian idiot box (tv) Telstra are showing a really great advertisement (polluting the air waves) promoting the new Samsung Galaxy S10 with the capacity for 5G speed, but do you really need this speed on your mobile phone?

But there's one small problem...

They don't tell you how much they're going to bleed you dry.

So, a quick interwebs search reveals:

On the technicality of downloading video content on your phone, a quick search will reveal that;

Super HD video needs 7 - 12Mbps (Megabits per second),
HD quality video needs 5Mbps, according to Netflix and
4K video, a quality that the S10 cannot display (3040 x 1440) needs 25Mbps.

3G or rather HSPA+ (3.5G) in Australia has a theoretical maximum speed of 21.6Mbps with a real network speed of approx 12Mbps.

With 4G, 100Mbps is not unreachable.

5G has a theoretical maximum speed of 10,000Mbps, where apparently Telstra's speed test on the S10 5G shows 1.2Gbps (Gigabits per second).

So do you really need 5G on your phone?

Well technically no, but the corporations need to push the technology so they can make maximum profit from their product.

Where by the time 5G rolls out the NBN Australian taxpayers and consumers overpaid for will be obsolete, where the agenda is for 5G wireless routers to be attached to every street corner or light post.

But the corporate slaves will be so proud of their new Samsung S10 5G, for no real reason at all.