Did Apple only update 5G-A in China for iOS 18.4 this time?
by Poster
Apr 1, 2025
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It's very strange. I haven't seen people discuss the 5G-A (5.5 G) of the iOS 18.4 update this time, such as reddit/youtube. The English video didn't mention it, and Apple's update instructions didn't write. It seems that only Chinese users are discussing the 5G-A signal?
Is this an update only for China? Why don't we see any foreigners discussing it, or do we say that 5G-A has already been popularized abroad, and we are just blinded?
Can any overseas students confirm it? Why do you feel that this matter is only discussed in Jane?
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Anonymous1792 Apr 1, 2025Beijing Unicom, urban areas, displays 5GA by default after upgrading.
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Anonymous5460 Apr 1, 2025Mobile, you have to have a package of more than 200 to have 5Ga
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Anonymous5461 Apr 1, 2025After the upgrade, base station support is still needed. I show that 5G at home is 5GA at the company
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Anonymous5462 Apr 1, 2025Related to the industry, domestic operators currently show that the condition of 5G-A is multi-carrier aggregation. To put it simply, you used to drink water from one pipe. Now you use three pipes to supply water at the same time, and it is easier for the traffic rate to reach the operator. The upper limit of your contract rate, Another point is that I have been connecting with European operators before. The United States doesn't know much about it. Most European operators are currently in NSA status, that is, the intermediate state of the transition from LTE to 4G to SA, that is, 5G. Only France Telecom, Austria Together or Deutsche Telekom and other major operators deploy SA in key cities. So what you see is basically Chinese users talking about, foreign... If you want to discuss that he doesn't have this condition, The most important reason for the slow progress abroad is that 5G base stations consume too much electricity. The Russia-Ukraine war has been fought for two years, and the electricity bills in Europe are skyrocketing. Operators (mostly private) cannot recover their investment, so 5G will only be deployed in Key areas of key cities.
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Anonymous5463 Apr 1, 2025@ Anonymous2051 Me too
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Anonymous5464 Apr 1, 2025After upgrading, it shows 5Ga by itself, and I am still confused what this is
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Anonymous5465 Apr 1, 2025I didn't upgrade. In a subway station in Beijing, the iPhone 16Pro + 19 yuan telecom star card from other places, and the 5G measurement is 1.5 Gbps faster downlink. I don't think it is necessary to upgrade for that A.
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Anonymous2134 Apr 1, 2025It's just that operators have lowered their requirements for 5G-A. The iPhone 13 originally supported 5G carrier aggregation, but the operator just modified the configuration file to support 5G-A display. Otherwise, according to Qualcomm's description, only X72 or above will officially support 5G-A networks.
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Anonymous5466 Apr 1, 2025@ Anonymous2776 # 1 At the beginning, poof.
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Anonymous642 Apr 1, 2025@ Anonymous5462 @ Anonymous2776 see that? It's called professionalism. It's 2025, fewer filters, the more you see, the more you see, and the more you walk, the more you feel that their moon is not so round, 😄
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Anonymous178 Apr 1, 2025It hasn't been updated to 5G-A abroad Now they have to complete the 5G SA construction first, and then discuss carrier aggregation It is said that iOS18.4 has just updated the RCS of T-Mobile MVNO (tmobile _ mvno _ us) in the United States. This is discussed more
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Anonymous3605 Apr 1, 2025@ Anonymous5462 Indeed. The United States doesn't know. Europe doesn't discuss it because the infrastructure hasn't kept up at all.
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Anonymous2722 Apr 1, 2025When 3G came out, I wiped it very fast, especially China Unicom's 3G could actually run to 2.5 MB, and then I went to 4G. Damn it, it was so fast, it could have 1000mbps (really, not many people in Guangzhou used 4G at that time). At that time, mobile 4G can run up to 1000mbps), and then 5G came out, let alone 4G, even 5G can only run more than 200 mbps at most, except for some top shopping malls that can have an indoor speed of 8-900mpbs To put it bluntly, there are 4G, 3G = 2G, 5G 4G = 3G, 5Ga 5G = 4G, China is full of routines
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Anonymous4539 Apr 1, 2025I really knelt on the first floor for a long time. If you don't do any investigation, open your mouth and come. Domestic 5G has developed very well. I now use 5G as broadband
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Anonymous2774 Apr 1, 2025Supported since iPhone 13
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Anonymous2121 Apr 1, 2025@ Anonymous529 # 8 I'm in the main city of downtown Hangzhou, it shouldn't be
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Anonymous2041 Apr 1, 2025@ Anonymous2772 # 13 Because deploying SA with millimeter wave is a disaster.
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Anonymous5467 Apr 1, 2025Remember to turn on "Enable 5g", so that 5ga will be displayed steadily. If "automatic 5g", 5g is displayed most of the time.
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Anonymous2041 Apr 1, 2025@ Anonymous2722 You can't ignore that mobile traffic usage per capita in 2024 is 2.5 times higher than in 2019 and 50 times higher than in 2015.
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Anonymous2769 Apr 1, 2025https://imgur.com/a/ffnJVp3 Coordinates Boston.