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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The last mile that I was talking about was purely in neighborhoods with enough density to justify putting in a microcell per block.
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Streaming video changes the economics of wireless. The assumption with wireless is that everyone won't be using it at the same time. That's why wireless throttles people after a certain amount of usage during busy times.
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Except the solutions to that are cheaper than 5G, can be faster and have existed for 15+ years!
Mobile was always only meant to be for
MOBILE use, short bursts of looking up a web page. Or short video calls. It was never meant as an alternative to wired broadband of ANY kind. The contention is terrible and unlike fixed wireless solutions the operator can only control contention by dropping connections, blocking connections and throttling.
Except the former incumbent in Ireland gutted DSL by selling mobile at a monthly rate lower than the line rental (before you even added a broadband sub), to match Three, who for years never made profit but sold cheap to build customer base. Several failures there. So line rental fell from 82% to close to 50%. It was a gift to UPC cable when they took over Chorus & NTL (now renting Virgin name, a subsidiary of Liberty Global).
There are other problems with streaming too. It was meant to offer "long tail", instead to attract customers it's competing with new releases on other media.