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I don't buy this hype about so much demand and applications. Why ? Don't tell Verizon or AT&T, both likely candidates for replacing their terrestrial services
by zzalpha 10y ago
I don't buy this hype about so much demand and applications. Why ?
Don't tell Verizon or AT&T, both likely candidates for replacing their terrestrial services with 5G in the US as a way to compete nationally against Comcast.
There's a reason Verizon has been selling off chunks of their system to Frontier.
After all, why put wires in the ground if you can just attach a 5G modem to the side of a person's house?
- wolfgke 10y ago> After all, why put wires in the ground if you can just attach a 5G modem to the side of a person's house? Will they also offer unlimited data plan for this? :-(
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- lanaius 10y agoThey don't currently for their attached 4G services (up to 30GB for $120 a month) so there's clearly no reason to expect they would/will for 5G service.
- wolfgke 10y agoThis should exactly answer zzalpha' question "why put wires in the ground if you can just attach a 5G modem to the side of a person's house?". :-)
- Spooky23 10y ago> After all, why put wires in the ground if you can just attach a 5G modem to the side of a person's house? Edited with the cynic filter: After all, why pay unionized workers to provide all you can eat service through wires in the ground if you can sell metered service by just attaching a 5G modem to the side of a person's house?
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- petra 10y agoSo we're talking about using phase array directional antennas, right? But once we add strong directionality, how big the difference is between licensed and unlicensed anyway?