Posted on 02/17/2017 10:54:13 AM PST by Red Badger
Perfect example. Even now, all his in-home wiring provides faster & secure networking ... but the stark raging convenience of wireless completely overwhelms that.
Even now, I look around my house seeing telephone drops everywhere. Haven’t used them for the 10 years we’ve lived here. Would be nice to have a “wired home phone”, but with smartphones in pockets there’s just no point.
You won’t need one.
But you will, in time, upgrade to one.
Just like 2G just died a few weeks ago. You didn’t need to get a 3G or better, but when 2G was shut off nobody cared because everyone had upgraded.
Some people such as my wife still needs land line phones. Her sister lives in a location in New Hampshire that has iffy cell coverage. My wife calls from Wisconsin and needs the land line to land line connection
While that’s sorta the idea, #17 gets the point across better: think shoeboxes stuck on lampposts (power source right there, elevated ideally relative to area served, easy access, property easements already satisfied).
All carriers are moving toward unlimited data plans now.
“4G LTE network, for which speeds top out at about one gigabit per second...”
What magical world does this exist in? I say from my experience it’s actually closer to 1-2 Mbytes/sec.
Same with my wife.......
Yes, 5G is a different technology and you would need millimeter band antennas as well as updated handset components to use it.
As I said, 4G has a lot of legs left in it, with 4x4 MIMO and some other tweaks that bring theoretical speeds to 400Mbps.
The 5G is faster, but its real benefit will be fewer dead zones and far more interoperable options to ensure you have a signal even when you’re far from a tower. Think Google Fi.
Again, this technology is years away from initial deployment until standards are completely settled out, OEMs have to manufacture carrier-ready back-end appliances to support it, and virtualization of the core environment is still in its infancy.
Even if you just bought a phone this year, it’s going to be good for a long time to come.
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