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Originally Posted by getbak
Yeah, I'm also with Koodo on a 4G plan and my phone shows it's getting 5G a lot of the time.
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But you won't get actual 5G speeds. Your phone shows the icon because you have 5G enabled in the mobile carrier settings and it's connecting to a network that supports 5G, but Koodo or any other carrier selling 4G plans will limit the speeds to around 100mbps
https://www.koodomobile.com/en/help/data-speeds
They want you to spend more money for the 5G plans to get higher speeds (250mbps advertised), but it's not worth it at all due to the terrible coverage. And honestly, even if you could get real 5G speeds I wouldn't see the point. What would you be using your phone for at 250mbps that you couldn't at 100mbps? It's not like the jump from 3G to LTE, which was around a 30x speed increase. 100mbps is plenty fast enough for any regular mobile use, even 4K streaming