They're advertising modest speeds at high prices. If we were selling
5mbps for $60-150/month that might change our model too. It might only
take a handful of customers to pay the tower rent, and you might not
care if they all had garbage signal.
I'd imagine QoS is tied to signal strength (like an airtime based
algorithm) and that incentivizes the customer to get higher signal
strength because they can see a better speed test result if they get
more bars. They might prefer the modem to live in the basement, but if
they get a tangibly better outcome by putting it upstairs in the bay
window then they might do that. Of course, Clearwire taught us that
might also lead to tupperware on the roof.
On 7/31/2020 11:53 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Instead of a professionally installed outdoor “cantenna”, they use an
indoor LTE modem, yet somehow it is faster than their previous LTE
based service, and has no data cap.
https://www.verizonwireless.com/home-services/lte-internet-installed/
Yet when we want to offer faster service, we use high gain outdoor
antennas. Either Verizon knows something we don’t, or more likely
just like in the early days of DSL, the key to making the service
profitable is to eliminate the truck roll and have the customer do an
indoor self-install.
Oh, and Gizmodo had some quibbles with the new Verizon home Internet
service:
https://gizmodo.com/read-the-fine-print-on-verizons-new-4g-home-internet-1844562135
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