VZNs 5G "fixed wireless" doesn't appear to have data caps, at least for now but it also doesn't really exist in the wild. the 30K' view as I see it is that we are going to see rural competition from the likes of SpaceX and OneWeb, and Urban competition from 5G fixed wireless. The opportunity seems to be in MDUs and surburban where 5G fixed wireless won't reach but the density is too high for LEO satellite based internet.
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 9:47 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > Usually the difference between mobile and fixed comes down to data caps. > That seems mostly left out of the discussion about 5G. Obviously a 500 > Mbps or 1 Gbps download speed doesn’t mean much unless you get truly > unlimited data. Maybe that’s where 5G is going. > > > > The other difference is guaranteed speed vs best effort. Mobile has > always been best effort, and apparently 5G is no different. You may be > amazed at one location and get astounding speeds, and a block away or > during peak usage times, you may get a lot less. But since they don’t sell > by speed tiers, you take the good with the bad. > > > > I keep wondering if we have to rethink our approach to speed tiers. Right > now people run speedtests and open a trouble ticket if they don’t get what > they’re paying for. And my approach has always been you get a certain > speed which lets you do certain things, like maybe stream 3 Netflix movies > in HD. And you should be able to do that at 8pm or 2am. As opposed to > best effort, which at 2am would convince you that you can do certain > things, but then you try do those same things at 8pm and you can’t. So > even if there’s the capacity at 2am to give you 1 GBps, that would be bad, > because you wouldn’t be able to count on it. But maybe things are changing. > > > > > > *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Carl Peterson > *Sent:* Friday, May 17, 2019 9:26 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Real 5G review > > > > First Honest assessment of an actual 5G network I've seen that isn't > marketing or sour grapes. > > > > https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/16/18628080/verizon-5g-network-gigabit-1gbps-download-speeds > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- Carl Peterson *PORT NETWORKS* 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 637-3707
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