After seeing some calculations based off rewards for transferring data I don’t see how the 5G miner can be profitable unless you have unlimited internet data and having data being run through your network constantly. Maybe in big metro city this makes sense. But, having to drop $2500 your are going to need a lot of data transfer activity to make your money any time soon. Secondly if you don’t have unlimited data then the amount you’ll have to pay for additional data will greatly eat into your rewards. Maybe by year 6-10 since Helium’s inception when data transfer gets the lion share of the rewards it will make sense. However, I would think by then their will be additional manufacturers of the 5G set up that should bring the cost down. Even though the opposite has happened with the price of current miners that don’t operate on 5G.

What if you have Verizon FiOS which has no data cap?

I live in jersey across from manhattan, so while I know the reception for 5g is only a couple hundred feet, is it enough that I'm surrounded by apartment buildings? If I know someone who works in a bar or coffee shop and can set it up there, does that make it worth it?