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I can't wait for affordable 5G wireless broadband routers to hit the market. 5G has recently arrived in my area and I'd love to upgrade from my Huawei 4G router

I can't wait for affordable 5G wireless broadband routers to hit the market. 5G has recently arrived in my area and I'd love to upgrade from my Huawei 4G router.

KingMachiavelli 7y ago
Where are you such that it's attractive and that you already use a 4G router? In the US at least cellular internet, wether 4G or 5G, is still cost prohibitive due the high cost data ($/GB).
- gad0lin 7y ago
  US prices are a joke and are multiple times higher than in other places, e.g. Poland - you can get 50GB/month for 12$. Even better there is special promotion now and it's half of it for 6 months .. 6$/50GB. On top of that this is not sth like 12-months contract and you can cancel it any time. At the same time I am living in Bay Area paying close to 100$ to Comcast for landline connection because my discount promotion has expired and AT&T is not providing service to my address. https://www.play.pl/resources/pdf/2018/Cennik-Oferty-Play-NEXT.pdf https://www.play.pl/resources/pdf/2018/Cennik-Oferty-Play-NE...
  - jessaustin 7y ago
    Wow maybe Poland don't have a "communications commission" whose primary task is to protect telco monopolies?
  - jdsully 7y ago
    In fairness almost everything is cheaper in Poland. Even compared to Europe.
  - strzzz 7y ago
    I think 4G is really cheap all around Eastern Europe. F.i. in Lithuania we have unlimited 4G for 18.90eur/month
- imglorp 7y ago
  Some 10 pct of the US doesn't even have access to DSL. https://broadbandnow.com/DSL https://broadbandnow.com/DSL
  - StudentStuff 7y ago
    A good chunk of the 90% that do have DSL don't have broadband speeds (25/3Mbps) offered to them over DSL.
    - imglorp 7y ago
      Yeah and the definition of "broadband" seems to vary with whoever needs to slant the data. I had a hard time finding any "broadband" availability stats that included which definition they used. It's like percent unemployment.
- jdietrich 7y ago
  Here in the UK, Three offer unlimited 4G data for £22/mo ($27). That's a very compelling alternative to fixed broadband for a lot of people; it's going to get a lot more compelling with the rollout of 5G. http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Devices/Huawei/E5573bs-322_4G_Mobile_Wi-Fi http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Devices/Huawei/E5573bs-322_4...
- Reason077 7y ago
  > ”Where are you such that it's attractive and that you already use a 4G router?” London, UK. I pay £20/month (~ USD $25) for SIM-only, unlimited data wireless broadband on the Three network. 12 month contract, though you can pay a bit more for 30-day. Got a Huawei MiFi router (tiny credit-card size thing) on Amazon for £69. Typically gets around 40 Mbps, sometimes a bit less at peak times. But I think the speed is limited by the cheap router as I’ve seen up to 105 Mbps if I put the SIM in my iPhone!

I can't wait for affordable 5G wireless broadband routers to hit the market. 5G has recently arrived in my area and I'd love to upgrade from my Huawei 4G router.

KingMachiavelli 7y ago

Where are you such that it's attractive and that you already use a 4G router? In the US at least cellular internet, wether 4G or 5G, is still cost prohibitive due the high cost data ($/GB).

gad0lin 7y ago
US prices are a joke and are multiple times higher than in other places, e.g. Poland - you can get 50GB/month for 12$. Even better there is special promotion now and it's half of it for 6 months .. 6$/50GB. On top of that this is not sth like 12-months contract and you can cancel it any time. At the same time I am living in Bay Area paying close to 100$ to Comcast for landline connection because my discount promotion has expired and AT&T is not providing service to my address. https://www.play.pl/resources/pdf/2018/Cennik-Oferty-Play-NEXT.pdf https://www.play.pl/resources/pdf/2018/Cennik-Oferty-Play-NE...
- jessaustin 7y ago
  Wow maybe Poland don't have a "communications commission" whose primary task is to protect telco monopolies?
- jdsully 7y ago
  In fairness almost everything is cheaper in Poland. Even compared to Europe.
- strzzz 7y ago
  I think 4G is really cheap all around Eastern Europe. F.i. in Lithuania we have unlimited 4G for 18.90eur/month
imglorp 7y ago
Some 10 pct of the US doesn't even have access to DSL. https://broadbandnow.com/DSL https://broadbandnow.com/DSL
- StudentStuff 7y ago
  A good chunk of the 90% that do have DSL don't have broadband speeds (25/3Mbps) offered to them over DSL.
  - imglorp 7y ago
    Yeah and the definition of "broadband" seems to vary with whoever needs to slant the data. I had a hard time finding any "broadband" availability stats that included which definition they used. It's like percent unemployment.
jdietrich 7y ago
Here in the UK, Three offer unlimited 4G data for £22/mo ($27). That's a very compelling alternative to fixed broadband for a lot of people; it's going to get a lot more compelling with the rollout of 5G. http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Devices/Huawei/E5573bs-322_4G_Mobile_Wi-Fi http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Devices/Huawei/E5573bs-322_4...
Reason077 7y ago
> ”Where are you such that it's attractive and that you already use a 4G router?” London, UK. I pay £20/month (~ USD $25) for SIM-only, unlimited data wireless broadband on the Three network. 12 month contract, though you can pay a bit more for 30-day. Got a Huawei MiFi router (tiny credit-card size thing) on Amazon for £69. Typically gets around 40 Mbps, sometimes a bit less at peak times. But I think the speed is limited by the cheap router as I’ve seen up to 105 Mbps if I put the SIM in my iPhone!