Verizon's Wireless 5G Home High-Speed Internet Just Destroyed The Case For 'Net Neutrality'

IBD ^ | 09/14/2018

[PapaBear3625]

Due to the very nature of satellite transmission, satellite internet will always suck. Too much latency.

That is true for satellites in geosynchronous orbit (22,236 miles up, about 1/4 second round trip at speed of light).

SpaceX SpaceLink will operate from a network of satellites 680 miles up, which reduces speed-of-light round trip considerably.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Guess you don’t have a microwave oven, or fly on big ‘ole jet airliners, or get X-rays for dental work, or live in an area with rocks, use a cell phone, I will stop there.

I guess you do have plenty of tin foil.

[Magic Fingers]

“Guess you don’t have a microwave oven, or fly on big ‘ole jet airliners, or get X-rays for dental work, or live in an area with rocks, use a cell phone, I will stop there.”

Only cell phones emit a continuous microwave signal and it appears that the jury is still out on their long-term effect. FWIW, the few folks I know in IT & engineering aren’t so cavalier about the potential effects of 5G mini-towers.

[Fresh Wind]

Well, actually it had to do with certain recreational drugs that were popular at the time.

[Dacula]

I work for a wireless carrier that is largest in the country. My area is GA and AL.

Get rid of your tin foil hat, unless you always have to wear it.

5G will make a big difference and change everyone’s use of the internet.

My job for the past few years was set on gearing up for the 5G roll out. I am working on the Super Bowl that will be in Atlanta next year.

[USS Alaska]

Powerful wireless transmitter at your curb. Are we sure that is a-ok for our brains? Especially small children? Not for me, thanks.

I can see why you don't think it's 'a-ok' for your brain, but whether you subscribe or not, your single cell will still be affected.

You might as well use it, it can't hurt your brain.

[ro_dreaming]

Fur us rural citizens, high speed internet isn’t a monopoly, it’s a nonopoly. I have zero options. No Comcast, no Charter (formerly Time Warner), no local cable company. The telco, which has a hub site approximately 1 mile (cable distance) from my house and provides basic twisted pair copper for my “landline” telephone system, refuses to install a DSLAM, or any other internet gear (high speed, or not), because it’s not cost effective for them. I get a blazing 1 Mbps download, and around 500 kpbs upload when tethering to my AT&T phone. I got 4-5 Mbps down, and 4-5 Mbps up on a Verizon JetPack hotspot, but that is limited to 15 Gb per month, and then throttled to 600 kbps.

*IF* Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile &/ Sprint installed 5G at either of the two towers less than 2 miles (as the crow, or RF flies) from my house, I, and the hoity-toity neighbors would be on them in a microsecond.

*UNTIL* that happens, we’re hosed.

[ro_dreaming]

Here in Houston it’s marketed as $50 a month for current Verizon customers, $70 for new customers. NO monthly cap, NO throttling. What you get for speed is dependent on how close you are to the tower, and how much your trees/house construction interferes with the RF. (Also, those who sign up, and are in the limited neighborhood at launch, get 3 months no charge, while they work out the kinks; at least per the announcement in the local fishwrap).

[PapaBear3625]

Thanks. That may work well in some areas, but what will they do where the utilities are underground?

That particular approach will only work when there are above-ground power lines, so in other areas a different approach will be needed.