5G stated performance is often misleading; advertised latencies of less than 1 millisecond refer to first network hop connection not end-to-end latency.

5G speeds are often quoted as a result of PING times which can vary wildly, where PING times from the same 5G phone at the same moment can register as low as 20 Mbps to 20 times higher as PING is interpreted in widely varying ways by Service Providers.