With 5G and 6G coming on tower to the home internet service, how will conventional fiber to the home survive? This company is wasting money on an outdated technology. The money to be made is in backbone fiber and fiber to the tower it seems. It's id--tic to spend $ on customer fiber drops anymore..
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@1gj+1kjkr5xvg dont blame others for your luck of living in a tin can with no insulation.
@gg Oddly I think we are very close to people washing clothes in the river again really soon if things keep going the way they are. My electric bill was nearly $700 to keep our sh---y double wide heated.
Nothing beats a physical fiber line period.
No ST either
Because 5G/6G isn’t the adopted standard. Just because it’s being built by the tons doesn’t mean a thing. It’s going to be a long time before or if that’s even an adopted standard. Always someone with doom and gloom. Fiber has been around and was built since the 80s just never adopted, turned on for general purpose or use. People acting like cellular will replace fiber. Now they might work together hand in hand but won’t be a replacement due to bandwidth spectrums. As far as being replaced by AI, oh well it’s called life. No one washes clothes in the river anymore either. You adapt and move on. Guess it’s time to climb out from your uneducated rock and learn a new skill.
This is why wireless providers like T Mobile and Verizon are buying fiber companies like Metronet and Frontier. The cellular companies are loaded with cash flow so they can do it and will continue to. More consumers have cellular plans than a land locked internet provider. The mobile companies are buying for the Fiber to the Tower and data center savings as the future is all about mobility and staying connected everywhere. The writing is on the wall. When the executives are all from frontier who all were just part of selling that fiber company to a cellular company what do you think is next? Watch… the continued cost cutting with AI innovation, customer self service enhancements, and automation will continue… all to make a sale to a big mobile company look good… It never ends in this industry. Wake up folks.
FTTH will not be king for 80 years like copper was. Wireless 5G/6G is already here. I have it in my home. FTTH has maybe 5 years left before people start to abandon it in droves. Any company still investing in FTTH is setting its money on fire.
FTTH will be king for a long time. 5G and 6G are great products but are not as reliable compared to FTTH. In the future yes it would eventually take over but we are living in the present. You cannot make future money in the present. I believe we should invest into what you’re saying as well. But right now our money is on FTTH. I believe FWA will start to take over in the late 2030s. When 7G comes out. But I also, believe that FTTH will still be a valid choice. Another thing to remember is that some cellular substitutions they throttle your speeds even when it’s unlimited. There’s too many variables to explain everything on here. Also People do not like change. Just look at TV subscriptions. It’s at 36% right now. In 2012 it was at 87%. It’s sharply dropped but you still have millions of people using it.