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My parents were in a similar situation. They only had terrible DSL in their area.

T-Mobile actually offers a home router with Ethernet out, they got accepted into the beta about 6 months ago and it's been a godsend.

- https://www.t-mobile.com/isp

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That's exactly the type of program I'm looking for but it only mentions LTE. The LTE coverage there is spotty and speeds aren't great, so really hoping for 5G. Plus the fine print in the terms talks about how some streaming services can't be used, but doesn't name them. If T-Mobile rolls out a program like this with their 5G network it would be amazing. I really can't imagine them trying to sell 5G phones to country folk, at least not until the price comes way down. What else would they use that 5G bandwidth for in the meantime?

I can't imagine how 5G could leap-frog LTE. As I understand it, 5G has to blanket an area to be able to reliably transmit into a building. When the companies seem to put 2-3 towers per ridge in mountain areas, how is that going to happen? And generally, I'd expect any new 5G towers would also be LTE towers anyway.

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