This article is an example of a journalist not knowing much.
She was looking for addresses in Savanah, the program is available in the Savanah market so her looking up an address is not including all of the other rural towns that can possibly get this service. Her methodology for stating availability is all wrong. This is a rural broadband program, it is likely for people who don’t have options other than satellite or the current cell phone data plans. Why everyone keeps comparing prices, speeds and such to other plans these people would buy if they could get them is silly. Total price with the equipment payment for non-Verizon customers is $60 plus the $10 per month equipment fee (for 24 months). Still not a bad price if this is your only option. A person would likely know how ell it’s going to work and what speeds they will get if they have already tested data on a Verizon cell phone, so performance should be similar. This program is likely targeted at their 700 spectrum but there is no reason why they can’t be on the other bands. As stated, this is being rolled out on the towers they are not capacity challenged. Some rural sites always deliver great performance simply because the site loading with data customers is not that bad. Why not sell this excess capacity? Wouldn’t you as a WISP? Quite frankly I am surprised the cellular operators have not done more of this. IT’s easy to limit the device to a small number of sectors and offer unlimited data if that portion of the network has plenty of capacity. No 5G required and those areas will probably never see 5 G anyway. If Verizon starts to offer a similar package to their MVNO program it would make for a nice adjunct to your coverage area where you do not have a network built. Verizon is looking hard at the software cell phone business model at the same time. Visble.com is a Verizon owned and run pre-paid service that offers unlimited data on a low priority basis already. I have been using one of their phones as a hot spot for some time now. Speeds on the network vary a great deal. It depends on where I am and how many users are on the system. The 5 meg download on the tethering does not seem to be enforced or used on the USB side and I get around the device limit by putting a router on the USB tether cable. Thank you, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 11:53 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Verizon launches new LTE Home Internet service - CNET 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 From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 10:30 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Verizon launches new LTE Home Internet service - CNET https://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-launches-new-lte-home-internet-service/
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