VOTE! What phone carrier do you use?

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I've hopped between carrier to carrier over the years, first AT&T, then Project Fi (which uses T-Mobile's network), then Verizon, then back to AT&T, then back to Verizon, and now I'm back on T-Mobile.
I thought T-Mobile would be awful given that I had a pretty awful time with it back when I used Project Fi years ago (but at least I didn't have extra roaming charges so there's that), but honestly the cell service is pretty good, I always have good coverage wherever I am. The most shit network I've used recently is probably AT&T
Poll is kind of a mess, I tried accounting for people who don't live in America so there's a lot of international carriers smushed in there as well
 
That's true, my bad. I only know about sub-6 and mmwave though. Could you explain to a retard what those 3 terms really mean? Obviously they have something to do with radio frequencies and higher is better, but on places like /g/ I've only ever seen those two terms I mentioned being used to describe "5G".
Also 2G kinda had the same issue with GSM, CDMA, GPRS, EDGE, all that shit. 4G had LTE (which isn't even 4G in terms of speed.)
mmWave is the high band 5G, it's has the highest frequency (24 to 40 GHz) and is what all the cellular companies use to shill how heccin fast 5G is, however it has shit range and has a lot of interference so it's only really in big cities where they can put a lot of the antennas
Sub-6 refers to any 5G technologies that use frequencies less than 6 GHz, so that includes low and mid band 5G. Low band offers greater coverage but is only 20 percent faster than LTE, and mid band can give a balance between coverage and speed.
And then there's stupid shit like 5GE, which has nothing to do with 5G and is just AT&T's bullshit marketing term for 4G LTE Advanced
 
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