Throwback Thursday: The link budget can be worse at mmWave (or sub-THz) frequencies than in sub-6 GHz bands, but the reason is not that the signal becomes more attenuated over the air.
This blog post explains this common misconception.
https://ma-mimo.ellintech.se/2019/10/29/is-the-pathloss-larger-at-mmwave-frequencies/
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