Someone on my town Facebook page complaining about not having any options for internet (Comcast only in our town) and someone chimes in not to worry because wired internet is dead and everyone should just 4G through T-Mobile SMH
Someone on my town Facebook page complaining about not having any options for internet (Comcast only in our town) and someone chimes in not to worry because wired internet is dead and everyone should just 4G through T-Mobile SMH
I think he may be right to an extent, and it could probably be fast if there are enough small cells.
In Canada, I think there are still lot of neighbourhoods that don’t have FTTH (including mine). In my case our options for getting internet are cable (which tops out around 1.5gbps down but only like 50mbps up), or telephone (max offered is about 50mbps down).
Both providers are building out fiber slowly and have been for years, but I’d imagine if the small cells themselves aren’t too expensive, it could be a lot cheaper for them to just run the fiber along the street and put small cells as needed (without having to rewire every house).
It won’t be as good as fiber, but I could see it being better than phone lines especially, and good enough for most.
It might also make it easier for other providers to enter a given market (currently we only have 2 choices, some places only have 1) which could be good for competition.