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5G will put century link out of business.

• inetknght 8y ago
  I'll believe that when I see it. Until then, I believe that any wireless communication is inherently inferior to wired communication.
  • paulcole 8y ago
    Canned soup is inherently inferior to homemade, but it only takes 2 minutes to heat up, travels well, lasts a long time, and can be bought almost anywhere for cheap.
    • rthomas6 8y ago
      True, nobody eats homemade soup.
      • inetknght 8y ago
        Especially not at home.
• Someone1234 8y ago
  If it can achieve 1 Gbit/s as advertised and scale to enough customers? It just might. But I'm going to be interested to hear the first real customer's experiences. For example what is the latency they're seeing? Weather outages? How well does it handle peak hours? Don't misunderstand, the current ISP competition in much of the US is super toxic, and I don't support it. But 5G promises a whole lot, and I cannot ignore the technical side of why it may fall short.
• markovbot 8y ago
  So we'll have a different shitty ISP? My shitty carrier (T-Mobile) does DNS hijacking of all NXDOMAINs, and pretends like it's perfectly reasonable.
• mr_toad 8y ago
  5G just means I can use all my data plan in seconds rather than minutes.