Download Apps and Movies in Seconds

The most obvious benefit of 5G technology is that it’s fast, and not just faster than LTE, but mind-bogglingly fast. At its peak, you’ll get faster speeds than even the best home broadband connections can offer right now. AT&T’s mmWave 5G network, for example, which is already available in 35 U.S. cities, promises download speeds of 2Gbps.

To put that in perspective, this would let you download a typical HD movie in under 30 seconds, and while Apple doesn’t let you actually download 4K movies, 5G will provide more than enough bandwidth to stream them from services like Apple TV+ and Netflix, the former of which offers the highest bitrate streaming we’ve ever seen, still peaking at only 41Mbps — well short of the 500Mbps+ speeds that even the slowest 5G networks are expected to offer.