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>They were already gifted many billions of dollars in the past for this same basic purpose but they pocketed the money. They can just use the free money they've
by technofiend 6y ago
>They were already gifted many billions of dollars in the past for this same basic purpose but they pocketed the money. They can just use the free money they've already been given.
I mean they could but they wont, and there was no reason to with Ajit Pai running the place. I daresay they'll have to be sued into compliance to do it now. Not that I object to that: they need to refund the taxpayers' money or do what they promised with it.
- smegger001 6y ago>they need to refund the taxpayers' money or do what they promised with it. plus interest.
- gabereiser 6y agoThey’ll just claim something something 5G and will be back in the feds good graces. Honestly the cable industry is a monopoly and has grown beyond government oversight. This needs to change but we don’t have any other option than nullifying anti-municipal fiber laws and start laying down new lines.
- bredren 6y agoThis is why starlink is so important. I can not wait to stop paying Comcast.
- new_realist 6y agoWhy don’t you move to 5G now?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoMost of America doesn't have true (mm wave) 5g. About 1/3 of America lacks "5g" entirely. Assuming one does have access it's not financially prudent for most households to buy into 5g when the caps are as low as 100gb/mo. https://www.androidauthority.com/where-is-5g-available-in-the-us-1140484/ https://www.androidauthority.com/where-is-5g-available-in-th...
- fulafel 6y agoNitpick: mm-wave is just one of the dozen things that are in the 5G cornucopia of random technologies, it's not more or less "true 5G" than eg 5G edge computing.
- gabereiser 6y agoIn America 4>5 so we’ve appropriated “5G” to mean the mm-wave wireless transmission. There are still large pockets of the US on data caps as low as 10gb. Throttled connections. Asymmetric networks. All so we can be nickel and dimed to death on fees, privilege, bundles, and in some cases double paying for content.
- smichel17 6y agoIt's funny to me, reading "as low as 10gb". I used 45MB of data last month, and 9 of that was the Android OS. (And, yes, 4.33GB on wifi, of which 186MB was the OS). I know other people use their phones way more than I do, it's just a different world to me, where data limits are a thing to think about.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoI use at least 50gb of cellular and a few tb cable internet every month.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoI specified mm wave because regular 5g is about as good as 4g making the distinction worthless in practice. To actually benefit from 5g and justify the costs you'll need to be in one of the few cities with mm wave and have reasonable data usage agreements, which virtually no America can say they have both AFAIK. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G#Speed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G#Speed
- msh 6y agoYou dont need mm wave to get decent speeds on 5G. Sub6 5G can give you a gigabit with much better coverage.
- coldcode 6y agoMy neighborhood the Verizon 5G is pathetic, its slower than 4G and that is still slower than my terrible Spectrum wired internet. I only live in the middle of a 5M metro area.
- sofixa 6y ago> Honestly the cable industry is a monopoly and has grown beyond government oversight I think you mean an oligopoly.
- lostapathy 6y ago> there was no reason to with Ajit Pai running the place This problem goes back WAY farther than Ajit Pai.