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Comment by zzalpha | Hacker News Reader

I don't buy this hype about so much demand and applications. Why ?

Don't tell Verizon or AT&T, both likely candidates for replacing their terrestrial services with 5G in the US as a way to compete nationally against Comcast.

There's a reason Verizon has been selling off chunks of their system to Frontier.

After all, why put wires in the ground if you can just attach a 5G modem to the side of a person's house?

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> After all, why put wires in the ground if you can just attach a 5G modem to the side of a person's house?

Edited with the cynic filter:

After all, why pay unionized workers to provide all you can eat service through wires in the ground if you can sell metered service by just attaching a 5G modem to the side of a person's house?

So we're talking about using phase array directional antennas, right?

But once we add strong directionality, how big the difference is between licensed and unlicensed anyway?

> After all, why put wires in the ground if you can just attach a 5G modem to the side of a person's house?

Will they also offer unlimited data plan for this? :-(

They don't currently for their attached 4G services (up to 30GB for $120 a month) so there's clearly no reason to expect they would/will for 5G service.

This should exactly answer zzalpha' question "why put wires in the ground if you can just attach a 5G modem to the side of a person's house?". :-)

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