Why China's 5G is Garbage 

Are you also tired of all this meaningless 5g hype? I sure am... Thank you to each and every one of you for supporting me and everything I do by watching my videos, you're incredibly awesome! A shout out to Ekster wallets too for being such an awesome company, grab a badass Ekster Wallet over at shop.ekster.com/serpentza you'll love it!

Years ago i worked as a Cellular Telco Engineer. I arrived in the industry where Huawei cell site equipment were being used in my country. The equipment was cheap, so they easily won the bidding to be used by the local carrier, Globe telecom. The equipment were trash. I had to return to newly built 3month old cellsites because something was wrong or broken. Ericsson and Nokia towers comparatively you left them for two years and they absolutely are still working spick and span. Just before i left that industry, Globe reaally felt the losses when those sites are always down and en masse replaced all Huawei equipment with Nokia Ericsson and Alcatel. I still chat with previous coworkers and they still trash on Huawei for having the absolute worst cell towers they worked on, and are glad those are close to being abolished nationwide.

I'm an "computer guy" at a large company. You explained 5g and the BS behind it perfectly.

I've worked in telecom for many years - starting with 2G and ending up in 5G. The technology used in 5G is fantastic and very complicated. I've spent years traveling to Central and South America working for Alcatel-Lucent testing networks and applications. Always, always, always, Huawei was at Mexico's, Uruguay's, Columbia's, Brazil, and Columbia's network. Often times Huawei's equipment wouldn't internetwork with our vendor's equipment because Huawei didn't follow 3GGP standards. In one country the tried to sell a standard implementation as new. Boy, were they pissed when someone anonymously spilled the beans on their deceptive practice. You might ask, how do they get away with this? Because Huawei does just what you say AND they get to track, receive text, voice, location, and other data for nefarious reasons. If you are using a Chinese product or service your information has been compromised. Never trust a Chinese business. If their lips are moving - they're lying.

In India 5G is getting rolled out and I was wondering about the hype of 5G considering the limited use cases . Thanks for making sense of 5G and this is a good case of world coming together and pushing Chinese companies back .

As a biomedical engineer I can concur with your statement. Hospital equipment needs to be 100% reliable so it’s always wired. We always have back ups in case of issues during surgery and we don’t want it complicated with wireless issues.

I worked on a consulting project for a Chinese company about 10 years go. We visited the client facility in China. My colleague (PhD in Physics) immediately recognized the “client’s” technology (which they were boasting about) as being proprietary technology that belonged to a company in a different Asian country.

5G is not about speed, it's about the 5G protocol, it is the data equivalent of CBDC, total surveillance.

Some years back I ordered a onewheel clone from a Chinese company because it was cheap and I couldn't afford an actual onewheel. It was called the Trotter (a typically terrible choice for a name. I mean pigs feet?!) I asked them to send me one unit and if I liked it I would then start importing them to sell. The very young English speaking girl who was handling my order was excited about this opportunity to sell to the NZ market. They sent the battery separately because it wouldn't be accepted by customs so in the packaging they called it Bluetooth speaker. A lithium battery was labeled as a Bluetooth speaker. So anyway it arrived ok. But this should have been a red flag. Anyway right out of the box the trotter didnt work. It powered down intermittently which was a huge safety risk and I only felt safe to use it on soft grass as I kept falling off. Eventually I took it apart and found the problem was poorly soldered connections on the circuit board. The solder was low quality and brittle. I fixed it and now had it working well. It was a very poor reproduction but was still fun to ride at slow speeds. Naturally the top speed and specs where half what the actual advertising stated. After breaking my nose and cutting up my face from the machine throwing me off and been incapable of doing its job of balancing at a modest speed well below its advertised ability I gave up and salvaged the motor and battery for other projects. What amazed me was the fact that this company didnt even bother to test the unit they sent me to make sure it was a good one that worked. You would think if they wanted my contract they would have made sure it was a good workimg model. They just didnt care. The whole Chinese system is incredibly wasteful and dumb. They produce millions of a crappy model of phone for example Doogee or whatever and release products on the market that have unfinished software and hardware and lie about the specs and then just sell as many as they can really cheap before people have time to realize they are crap. Then when the reviews start coming in they just keep lying.. Oh we will release an update to fix this bug. Then the update has more bugs. Then they just stop all communication and throw away all the rest of their stock or sell them even cheaper to India or whatever and then they are onto promoting the next model of that phone that is rushed to market and full of bugs and they just repeat the same crap again and again. Sure there are some Chinese phone companies that do it right.. But most of them dont bother. Cubot is one of the worst phone companies. Blackview etc will occasionally by chance release a model that works ok but there is always some frustrating bug like a faulty camera or gyroscope or button or screen etc. My experience with Chinese products has always been.. You get what you pay for. You pay peanuts you get peanuts.

Imagine a doctor doing brain surgery on his phone and suddenly it starts raining and he looses cell service for a few seconds as the phone switches to 4g. When he is reconnected his patient is now lobotomized and or has died

Correct me if I'm wrong but I would bet the reason the C.C.P. has put so much effort into building it's cellular network is so it can more tightly control it's people.

Some differences between 4G(LTE) and 5G was not mentioned in this show. In addition to data speed for 5G. One of the main advantages for 5G is the latency. 5G has much shorter latency comparing to 4G. This is important for real-time control application. 5G does have shorter range due to its shorter wave and higher frequency.

Thank you for explaining 5G. I'm 65 & still learning cell terminology. 😊

It started in India but the 3 players (jio, airtel and Vi) are looking at each other, who will increase the price of the monthly plans. Honestly it is no different from 4G and it doesn't work well indoor. Good 4G network is good enough to stream HD Netflix, gaming and whatever else. BTW 5g rollout was delayed in India because of drawing out Huawei. Glad Indian government decided to ban tiktok and Huawei. Nokia, Ericsson and samsung are now building network for the mobile carriers.

Nice to see Sasha again! She looks slightly embarrassed but she did a good job with the wallet.

I’m now signed up for all three of your channels: China Show, Your’s & your partnner in the China Show/Experience.

I also think it's funny that some car companies thought 5g will be good for self driving. Imagine driving through a tunnel and than causing a accident because u have no conection

I have a book called "Pistols of the Warlords" which covered pistol production in China during the first half of the 20th century. It's almost 100% knockoffs. Some of them were pretty decent, but it's a fascinating look at how China, even before the CCP, has been doing this knock off stuff for a long time and with absolutely everything, and it seems that it has just become even more prolific.

Australia was the first Nation to tell Huawei to “shove it”.

I don't want a toothbrush connected to the internet. Or a fridge, washing machine, or car for that matter. I have a computer and that's my internet machine. I want my appliances to do what they do well and for a long time. I want less computers in my life telling me how to live. It's all gotten too overwhelming.

Worked for Ericsson for over 15 years. we build with quality and safety first, always and that costs. Also want to mention that 5g in bad weather like snow and rain is not very good, 4g is actually better and safer. The amount of 5g towers you have to put up is crazy compared to 4g. 5g feels like making it easier for some to steal your data beacuse it is much more vulnerable. Just some points.

Thx for the honest assessment of what Huawei did to Nortel. I have run into some older ex employees who are still bitter about the fact that the Canadian government never held China to account for what they did. CCP propaganda and influence actually convinced the government that it was mismanagement rather than one of the most blatant examples of targeted industrial espionage.

I still remember those days people were talking about how 5G was one of the most important technology innovations in human history on all the Chinese media. They seem to be much more silent about it now.

As always, you are opening our eyes and let us know how we are manipulated by propaganda

One thing still worth mentioning, while the rest is true, what you said about 5G. Not only you will have a much higher bandwidth (wirh far coverage and worse penetration - meaning how it can go through concr walls for example, how much the attenuation is in dense materials - from the same power), but there is one undoubted benefit: one access point can serve far more clients. Let's take a concert in a stadium for example. If those 10k people all want to stream the event, that will fill the capacity of the relay quickly. Resulting in lower bandwidth for a single client or denial of service. Here is where 5G has its benefits. You can cover higly crouded areas with far more connections, and far larger bandwidth for each individual connection.

I caught that little “5G” marker on the VCR intro lol, good video! So glad you guys can bring all this info from across China where it’s otherwise difficult to find

I still have 4g. Its fast enough for what I want. I honestly thought, when they rolled out 5G where I am in China, all they done was stencil spray paint “5G” onto the connection boxes 😂👍.

It’s amazing you still haven’t disappeared. Hope you all the best ! Keep up the good work

I talked to a friend who was impressed by the 110 ish mbps speeds he had on 5G, little did he know I get those constantly on 4G in my home town. I am glad that he could experience in a big city the equivalent of a non crowded 4G network with good infrastructure.

Just reading the Two Michaels book from the reporter who covered the story. Three chapters are all about the 5G , IP theft, cat and mouse games and shell companies behind Meng and Co. Nice tech summary.

I remember the same phenomenon happening a few years back with "Nanotechnology". Corporations slap this buzzword on all aspects of products to appeal to customers. It died as quickly as it popped up. The same, I feel, is happening to "5G" as well. These pre-mature pursue of ~new~ technologies really saddens me.

Good job, W. Everyone needs to pull the wool off their brains.

btw, the "G" in 5G just means Generation. It's the fifth one. The preceding ones were: 2. GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) 3. UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) 4. LTE (Long Term Evolution)

I know you've mentioned having worked in tech, so I've been curious to hear you talk about these things. I remember some of the ads from when 4G was being rolled out, and all the fuss over 5G is the same, except people are more dependent on their phones than ever, and thus have some amount of care to have higher numbers. Honestly, a good 4G signal is plenty fast, and 4.9G works too. Anytime I'd need anything faster, I would be somewhere with reliable Wi-Fi (or preferably ethernet) to connect with anyways. With time, higher bandwidth will become more necessary, and by that time there will be more widescale "real" 5G anywhere I'd find myself, so it's really no rush besides marketing.

I just found this channel. You guys are incredible.

you got it right initially when saying 5g isn´t faster per se, when you were talking about controlling the robotic arm or a tooth brush. basically 99,9% of (mostly useless) internet of things stuff only needs a tiny amount of data. if at all, it´s latency that counts far more, in most cases and 5g is about equal if not worse in that regard in many cases when it comes to that. 5g only has the advante when lots of bandwith is required, as in streaming or downloading stuff. but even then 4g could easily handly full hd streaming and beyond, depending on coverage.

So nice to see Sasha making an appearance in your videos again!

I laughed way, way to hard at the 5G VHS... Thanks!

You make some very interesting videos my man.... Respect bro

I appreciate your willingness to speak about these things. Stay safe man, these people seem ruthless. Keep your head on a swivel!

I look forward to your segments. Very informative.

Your wife cracking up laughing as the model for the wallet promo was cute as hell. Nice job 👍

Keep it up serpentza, can’t believe it’s been so many years watching you. Love the content.

My former employer used to buy literally container loads of alleged communication equipment, light/camera poles etc. My job was to make it safe and upto standard. Alot of work to do😉

I appreciate your information so much. Thank you for keeping us updated with the good, the bad, and the ugly stuff.

"If you're in a very bad place, like a desert, you'll have Edge" Here in Germany it's that bad in a lot of places still, so this struck me as quite funny

Thank you for the information of your report: very important

Serpentza is dormant James Bond or retired James Bond; the man is too good at what he does.

Many thanks for the video Winston, as you've finally put into film exactly what i've been saying to people for a long time, 5G except in very specialized applications is a marketing gimmick that the average user has no need for, the real worry though is that large companies (network providers and network related hardware) are trying to coerce users into 5G ("have it with your device, it's free or i've noticed a deterioration in 4G service, could it be the networks being "run down?"), which the companies (China with Huawei/ZTE in this film but the others aren't on your side they're on the side of profit) see as the next big "goldmine" via higher prices and the need for new hardware/software.

Just finished the podcast too and this was the first thing that popped up, beautiful.

Ty for helping me also say “I told you so!” Your Awsome I love your channel. Having both sides of the story and multiple points of view provide a more unbiased data analysis.

Ahhh....nice to see Mrs. Serpentza's fantastic smile again!

lol... that was the cutest ad i've seen in a long time. I assume that was the wife? If so, you did well my friend. Wish you both a long happy life.

Thanks Serpentza

please continue your good work!!!- (A browned off fellow South African)Goeie Werk!)

Yeah, slapping 5G on things is about as useful as prefixing with "i-" or "e-". Love this channel. Nice cameo performance in the wallet ad BTW !

This "Fai Ji" guy must be very famous.

Excellent presentation . I like honest examination

*Dude we need your take now more than ever!*

Most cities still uses 4G specs, so for the time being I am still using 4G mobile phones.

The hydrogen-powered cow is a classic. Was thinking about that clip just yesterday.

In Brazil we are experiencing this exactly situation, as we have already Huawei infrastructure installed, it is cheaper for them to just go with it rather than switch to Ericsson or any other 5G telecommunication provider. In the last BID, the government decided the best option was to go for the chinese 5G due to the costs of infrastructure and as you guys can guess, none of that espionage stuff was even considered (well in fact it was considered, but as you guys already know, money talks louder)

I mean as an engineering student specialising in robotics… why the hell does a tractor need so much bandwidth? Why does it need fast internet?? It’s a tractor goddamit.

I'm watching this on Dutch 5G that is literally just 4g infrastructure with 5g antennas. Great for marketing, but the same bandwidth is shared by the same users, so it does not make a difference at all.

This show is always informative, concise and the host's use of humor and witty remarks make it very entertaining..... wow a 5 G toothbrush?

Great to see your lovely wife doing a cameo on today's video Winston. She's been missed by a lot of viewers, although the reason for both her and Vivienne's absence is sadly necessary.

Thanks for the informative video...

Thanks for the info...

One of my favourite RU-vid channels for sure. Keep up the good work

I laughed when I first heard the guy made a hydrogen powered cow to expose the ccp lol

Fantastic antidote to what we are fed. Just the right words. Love your podcast.

I found a bluetooth toothbrush useful, because it allows me to see which teeths are already cleaned and which are not yet.

I sat thru the commercial just because you had “Dr.Hu” as the model. Great choice all around. 😊I had a huawei phone that I purchased in China.. an awful phone. When I returned to for a second contract I thought maybe the Honor 6 would be better than the 5 I bought before. It was even worse. All of the features that were even a little useful were removed. Garbage.

I'm yet to upgrade my telephone subscription since I still have my old 4g with a fraction of the cost and I probably wouldn't notice any difference with 5g in daily use.

Next : 5G smart bread toaster and a 5G smart bread knife. Because bread will certainly get toasted and cut faster with more 5G precision! 😂

I was just waiting for one of them to say “pub G” lol

I knew right away 5G wasn't a big deal the day Huawei began talking about 6G even before we had a single 5G connection. And i live in the EU! I bought a 4G LTE smartphone and just saved some money.

The first thing I thought of when they started making a big deal about 5G was "whoopty doo. My phone's already fast."

lol @ '5G Surgery'.. Good God that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end XD

Hey that tractor is awesome tech! You can even 3D print it at home!

I believe one of the key benefits of 5g wasn't the better speed, but was actually the huge increase in the ammount of users it can handle. This was in part to actually make the idea of ioT with everything networked actually viable.

🇧🇷 For us brazilians, the first thing that catch our attention about this guy, is his ACCENT. His accent is CLEAR and very understandable. Much better than USA and even british accent. It is SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH ACCENT. AND WE LOVED IT.🇧🇷

Where can I get a 5G VHS videocassette player like you've got. I am sooooooo envious! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm more annoyed with rising ISP prices than new tech. Canada deals with this the worst. Rogers, attempts to give you top download speeds, at high prices, and poor upload speeds. End result, they traffic shape because their networks can't handle it. Bell's fiber offers top downstream/upstream rates of 8Gbps, but super expensive. Both of their modems runs like they will overheat and break down after a year.

Absolutely true, once spoke to an Internet technician, and they said higher the G more focused and lower range it has. So they need more dishes, more power consumption, and if you miss the 5G focus by a degree, you will have problems. He said to smother everything with 3G, in Australia, and build up capacity

For something like remote surgery, *latency* (and specifically maximum latency) is more important than bandwidth. Which, yes, means you're probably going to be using 100BaseT over cat5e at the endpoints, routed over fiber for the bulk of the distance. Operating rooms don't have to walk down the street or ride the bus, so they generally don't have any use for the portability that is the only reason for using a cellular network.

There is one advantage - latency. But it won't beat wired or optics though. Another side benefit with 5G is that we got multi-time quantisation for digital radio signals with some tries to point signal directionally so home user is rather happy to get affordable WiFi6.

good work

Yes, absolutely. Lower frequencies travel further and more easily get around things at any given power - even though they are all technically 'line of sight.' A Chinese guy once told me you cannot get financed for anything in China unless you can show someone else having already done it. That was years ago. I felt then, and still am sure now, that it's a perspective that locks in mediocrity and delivers crap. Thanks...

Your right about the RC car analogy. All you would need is a Rasbery Pi or an old PC using a Core 2 Duo sitting in the house or barn and run some simple code linked to GPS. Then a CB antenna to reach the signal however far away your field is and if you don't have enough signal strength than you can get a cheap signal amplifier to extend the signal. Hell, I have a friend that's really into CBs and I think he was running a 400W amp and was able to talk to people from Lake Erie to South Carolina. I think that might be far enough to extend any signal lol.

great info

I peep that GameCube in the background of your sponsored segment! Good taste 👍

The rural location I live in is an example of a place where 5G is less useful. It's great in big cities, but you nailed it, not worth having it out here. It uses more power too - fortunately you can shut it off if you don't want it on most phones.

Good Video as always

How are you not pounding out videos on how insane China is right now. You're the best source! Make videos!

i used to have an old ZTE Celphone 10+ years ago before it was Banned by the U.S. gov

Great insight. Really clarifies what is happening behind the 5G hoopla. Thanks a million.

It’s nice to see Sasha again! Hope the family is doing well.

It has happened in disturbingly many countries, but I have yet to find an exposé on the subject: Taiwanese visitors being "extradited" to China for accusations of some improbable scam being perpetrated "against Chinese citizens." Specifically in the Spanish instance, a news article referred to the incriminating evidence as having been recovered from Huawei servers in China. A friend who keeps up with the tech side of things has explained to me that from a cybersecurity angle there is no such thing as a "back door" when the vendor is doing regular online security updates to the entire operating system. That's because the vendor (or whoever hijacks their update channel) can basically drive a hacker's truck through the front door as part of those updates. Just look at the Solarwinds hack a couple years ago for an example. The implications are so obvious - that Huawei already actively plants evidence and frames people in other countries, using their infrastructure control - that it is puzzling how little public discussion has come up. Ownership and control of the communications infrastructure is a way bigger challenge for national sovereignty and human rights than most seem to be aware of.

heck we got Xfinity cable boxes and now they offer a 10G wifi box! 😂😂 its only good for a living/ house...i think its only 7G max!😅