LTE stands for Long Term Evolution, which was a stop-gap mid generation marketing term -- 5G is not LTE. 5G is 5G, until they implement LTE as a marketing gimmick which they do not need to do as 5G is nowhere near at its peak yet.

First: It is not "just an encoding technology", so let's dispel with that from the above post.

Second: It operates on a variety of bands (low, mid and high 5G) that includes frequencies as high as 300GHz, though I don't believe any currently employ frequencies that high, instead being around 24-47GHz.

They are RF and not acoustic though, yes. They also consume more energy to power, by a significant margin.

https://www.trentonsystems.com/en-us/resource-hub/blog/4g-vs-lte-vs-5g

This site has a good and easily digestible series of information though it is incomplete in regards to common deployment.

LTE stands for Long Term Evolution, which was a stop-gap mid generation marketing term -- 5G is not LTE. 5G is 5G, until they implement LTE as a marketing gimmick which they do not need to do as 5G is nowhere near at its peak yet.

First: It is not "just an encoding technology", so let's dispel with that from the above post.

Second: It operates on a variety of bands (low, mid and high 5G) that includes frequencies as high as 300GHz, though I don't believe any currently employ frequencies that high, instead being around 24-47GHz.

They are RF and not acoustic though, yes. They also consume more energy to power, by a significant margin.