Is 5G Ultra Wideband a scam?
The more testing I do with Speedtests at different times and locations the more I think the whole thing is a scam.
There is a cell tower near where I live that was one of the first towers I found to have 5GUW. I believe it is there because a friend of mine who works for Verizon lived close by and had it setup there.
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When the UW tower first went live about a year ago the speeds were terrible on 5GUW. About 3 or 4 megabit download and less than 1 megabit upload. I mentioned this to my Verizon friend. He said he would look into it and then a week later the speeds were close to 100 megabit down and 20 megabit up.
Today when I noticed people working on the tower my cell phone switched back to no UW signal when I was near the tower. Just regular iPhone 14 Pro Max 5G speeds.
I ran a Speedtest with the Speedtest app and got 699 megabit down and 129 megabit up.
![](https://rydell.com/content/images/2023/01/image-6.png)
Since the speeds are that fast without UW then why do we even need UW? That is my question.
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