Turn off 5G on smartphones to conserve battery life, advises Verizon

As the world goes gaga over 5G, US telecom service provider Verizon has advised people to turn off the 5G access on their smartphones to save battery life.
In a tweet on Sunday, Verizon support said that “one way to help conserve battery life is to turn on LTE” if users found their batteries were “draining faster than normal.”
However, the fact is that one does not need to turn on 4G (or LTE) as LTE is always enabled as a fallback for the 5G network.
But Verizon is obviously being cautious so as not to actually tell its customers to “turn off 5G”, reports The Verge.
Verizon has spent more than $45 billion on bidding for a new faster spectrum while its rival AT&T has spent $23.4 billion.
Verizon’s 5G network uses a technology called DSS, which in many instances is actually slower than the LTE network it’s trying to replace.