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I was looking at a Wisp for a rural weekend home and it was 15x15Mbps for $50/month for unlimited plus $200 for the equipment on install. When I looked at t-mob

I was looking at a Wisp for a rural weekend home and it was 15x15Mbps for $50/month for unlimited plus $200 for the equipment on install. When I looked at t-mobile 5G home internet it was $50 for unlimited and free equipment. Although the speeds fluctuate they are still faster than the wisp. I think It's going to be mid range 5G that kills wisp, they might be able to serve edge cases but the mobile carriers see a market for home internet. They have the technology and the spectrum to make it happen quickly and everyone already has a mobile phone.

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ThaDood 4y ago
Not surprising. I did my thesis on community run broadband networks and the handful of WISPs I studied all had really pitiful offerings (comparatively speaking). Kind of sad, but the writing was on the wall with 4G being generally available in the US. WISPs are such a cool idea, but I'm glad to see fiber and 5G being rolled out. Not a huge fan of mobile providers gaining bigger market shares but that's the nature of the beast.
- hedora 4y ago
  Our local WISP nailed the last few mile problem, but zero providers will sell them more bandwidth for their towers, so we get 0.5s latency, 0.1M down, and single digit percent packet loss a hop or so past the tower. (The wireless link is reliably 30/30, near speed of light latency) T-Mobile keeps falsely advertising the availability of uncapped 5G at my address (when I try to buy it after they text me saying unlimited is available at my home address, the price more than doubles for a low data cap). Starlink RV plan for me for now. sigh It's OK, but ridiculously over congested.
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