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    Considering the cost of VOIP traffic, I figured the providers would have capitalized on that long ago. VoLTE would have given them the chance to still be criminal with their plans and billing, but reduce the overall cost of routing traffic. There would be a high cost to setup or build out but the ROI would have been seen quickly enough.

    VOIP traffic per user can be clear enough at 500k or less. Just imagine the amount of traffic that you could pass through at those speeds. To put stuff in perspective in a different way - I have renewable energy and Starlink at home. While I had this setup from long before, during Beryl I opened up the bandwidth on my "free" internet access. The prior setup was a free segmented VLAN for anyone to jump on with captive portal and a 1Mbps connection. When I say "opened up" I mean I doubled it to 2Mbps. There were 20+ persons from the community on the wireless on peak days and 8 persons averaged at any given point. Best believe some were on WhatsApp calls while others were browsing and messaging. What's the overall capacity that the companies can provider per user over LTE like now?

    Yeah - thought so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr.dre View Post
    VoLTE is actually being rolled out currently in JA. Should go live by end of the year.
    Really By Which Network, FLOW or Digicel.

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    Considering the Massive Cost, Plus the standard for 5G which Jamaica hasn't even settled on yet. I don't see 5G in Jamaica until after 2030. It's too expensive, and the Networks can't manage the impact alone. Government would have to provide huge tax breaks and Tax free programs in Network equipment hardware, the Spectrum and User Equipment. Plus the current demand isn't worth 5G on Mobile at this time. I know FLOWs Network is provisioned for 5G when they are ready to launch it, not sure about Digicel. The New Telecoms company which was supposed to start operations in Jamaica also had plans for 5G in Jamaica, Rock Connect has however gone eternally silent. They have been inactive on Social media since August 2023. Nothing new about them in the media and they still have spectrum sitting on not using. 5G in Jamaica can happen, but it needs stakeholders of every sector to join hands to make it happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan77791 View Post
    Considering the Massive Cost, Plus the standard for 5G which Jamaica hasn't even settled on yet. I don't see 5G in Jamaica until after 2030. It's too expensive, and the Networks can't manage the impact alone. Government would have to provide huge tax breaks and Tax free programs in Network equipment hardware, the Spectrum and User Equipment. Plus the current demand isn't worth 5G on Mobile at this time. I know FLOWs Network is provisioned for 5G when they are ready to launch it, not sure about Digicel. The New Telecoms company which was supposed to start operations in Jamaica also had plans for 5G in Jamaica, Rock Connect has however gone eternally silent. They have been inactive on Social media since August 2023. Nothing new about them in the media and they still have spectrum sitting on not using. 5G in Jamaica can happen, but it needs stakeholders of every sector to join hands to make it happen.
    I'll just wait on Starlink to go residential.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan77791 View Post
    Really By Which Network, FLOW or Digicel.
    Digicel, not sure what Flow is doing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr.dre View Post
    Digicel, not sure what Flow is doing.
    OK, I think FLOW as well. Because I'm seeing it highlighted in my Network settings. As well as WiFi calling, so it looks like FLOW will be using both.

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    I was thinking Flow or Digi would just put in 5G in Kingston and MoBay town center just to say we have 5g.. But it seems even that would be costly...

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    Could it be a frequency licensing issue? Just thinking on reasons.
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    One thing for sure... 4G highy saturated now... It not kicking like few years ago... Everybody using data haaaarrrdddd now...

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    Quote Originally Posted by GPRS Internet View Post
    One thing for sure... 4G highy saturated now... It not kicking like few years ago... Everybody using data haaaarrrdddd now...
    I wish Jamaicans had access to 5G, and wideband 5G at that -- I had my mind blown once when I was standing at a crosswalk near Grand Central in NYC, headed east on 42nd street, and did a quick speedtest. I clocked in at 3.2 Gigabits per second... while sipping my morning coffee. Bananas to have that much capacity in one's pocket!!

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