I live in a major city with cable internet everywhere along with fiber in some areas (unfortunately not mine), but I’ve had multiple instances of carriers’ salespeople knock on my door selling 5G home internet service.
The reason this doesn’t make sense to me is 5G will always have a much higher latency than any wired alternative — it really only makes sense to sell this stuff in rural areas without the infrastructure. What’s more is the most recent carrier has a reputation for extraordinary coverage but their network is CDMA so their network speed is one of the worst in the city.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to sell this stuff elsewhere?
They should do it remotely. Also Jehovah’s witnesses should do their rounds remotely. Then I can just route both towards each other or right into the pihole.
right into the pihole.
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Because people buy it.
Most folks are not as tech savvy as the people on Lemmy.
Most people don’t know the difference between cable, fiber, DSL, or wireless. It’s just “internet.”
Because these idiots keep putting services on top of ISP-heavy areas instead of deploying where there is zero competition. I.e., where they could potentially gain actual new business.
Sorry. I’m a little jaded after decades of access to only one viable ISP.
30 miles south of LA, my choices were:
- $65 for DSL through AT&T
- $75 for Cable Internet (That they called Fiber) through Charter’s ancient network
- $30 for TMo 5G when added to my family plan.
The TMo had more than double the speed. We need competition in this space. All the legacy companies are fat, slow, and lazy.
But latency. If you’re into online gaming, that would be a detriment.
Also I guarantee most people are still ok on 30Mbps. A 1080p Netflix stream consumes like 4Mbps.
They want to mindcontrol you…
