I'm sure the same cost arguments were made against providing electricity to rural areas in the early 20th century!
Fixed wireless is terrible, I should know, I've was forced to used it for almost 20 years.
Thanks to the FCC RDOF and VATI funds, I recently got fiber optic internet.
The difference is night and day! Instead of single digit mbps, I now have almost 1000 mbps!
No more lag and disconnects and I can download files in minutes vs the best part of a day!
Cellular companies, for cost reasons, only like to place cell towers in urban areas and along major roads. Hills, mountains and trees will obstruct the signal resulting in weak signal.
Fiber provides dedicated bandwidth, unlike cable or low earth orbit satellite, in other words, you're not fighting your neighors for bandwidth during peaks times.
We should be investing in fiber optic internet. Countries like Japan, South Korea has almost 90% coverage, even Baltic countries have coverage in the 70%!
Fiber has the potential of 44 terabytes per second!
Once the fiber is in place, you just have to swap out the end points to increase speeds over time.
As for 5G and fixed wireless, they require fiber optic for the backhaul!
I'm sure the same cost arguments were made against providing electricity to rural areas in the early 20th century!
Fixed wireless is terrible, I should know, I've was forced to used it for almost 20 years.
Thanks to the FCC RDOF and VATI funds, I recently got fiber optic internet.
The difference is night and day! Instead of single digit mbps, I now have almost 1000 mbps!
No more lag and disconnects and I can download files in minutes vs the best part of a day!
Cellular companies, for cost reasons, only like to place cell towers in urban areas and along major roads. Hills, mountains and trees will obstruct the signal resulting in weak signal.
Fiber provides dedicated bandwidth, unlike cable or low earth orbit satellite, in other words, you're not fighting your neighors for bandwidth during peaks times.
We should be investing in fiber optic internet. Countries like Japan, South Korea has almost 90% coverage, even Baltic countries have coverage in the 70%!
Fiber has the potential of 44 terabytes per second!
Once the fiber is in place, you just have to swap out the end points to increase speeds over time.
As for 5G and fixed wireless, they require fiber optic for the backhaul!