The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill
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The flashiest use cases are still a fantasy.

The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo…::AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile’s race to deploy 5G has failed to realize its flashiest outcomes while saddling carriers with debt and removing a competitor from the market.

  • @AsafumEnglish
    8•5 months ago

    I don’t think it’s a lack of travel, it’s a lack of consequences and an excess of monopoly control.

    Where I live I have exactly one option, and that’s in a very populated part of NY. The companies will lie and lie and lie, bribe politicians to keep their monopoly, etc. we simply don’t have options for the most part.

    America: Land of the Fee, home of the bribe.