This is one of predictions: "Thus, five years out, AT&T should be the owner of the nation's leading 5G network – a stark contrast from its old telephone switching infrastructure."
Does anybody here actually see this happening in reality?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/where-t-5-years-224500998.html
Absolutely not. A leveraged-buyout scam operator couldn't have purposefully done a better job in destroying this company's future prospects than Randy and his Johns have.
No there could be a 5g player not even yet in the picture. 5g changes the landscape and once it is proven safe for humans long term it is anybody’s guess.
Just more empty noise from the Randy-bot.
This is a concept I'm sticking in my pipe and smoking, but there is going to be an Internet of Things market out there, especially on the business side. The big application right now is electric meters, but, I see IOT ramping up. Now some might go through the Wi-Fi, but some will go through the cell phone network.
AT&T is not sleeping on this, nor are the other carriers.
https://marketplace.att.com/products/att-lte-m-one-rate-plan
My question would be is what will the coverage and service levels be when all of the tower outfitting and deployment of spectrum is complete. And what will be the price points for what I assume will be expansion of 5GE services to those non metro areas. There will be areas that probably will never see self driving cars. Really don’t care about speed tests in downtown NYC or LA. We hear about them standing up bigger retail presences in the smaller areas. What is that justification?
Oops, I said 2Q19...it was 2Q18 on TW. I believe the train may be picking up speed but time will tell, I have 5 years and 20 quarterly reports to find out. But I’m still not betting....
AT&T locked in their purchase of Time Warner on 6/14/19 just before the end of 2Q19 and a total debt of ~$180b. If you had told me then that 2Q19 financial statements would later verify debt would be down $18b at $162b I’d had bet money, and given odds, you’d be wrong and I would’ve lost!
I have come to believe certain things, in recent months.....that I will soon be surplussed, or worse outsourced. And to never underestimate T’s ability to get what they want at OUR expense.
In 5 years out, Will T be the leading 5G network? Don’t ask me, I gave up gambling!
No, this is a slow moving train. When you are saddled with debt it’s difficult to invest in your network. Legacy services will still be on the books for another ten years or more. Even as subscriber losses compound it still takes a long time to cycle through that many customers who in most cases don’t have another option. 5G wireless broadband may very well be the long term solution for every customer across the country but it’s going to take a long time to transition. Add in all the competition in that space and you’ll undoubtedly see carriers cherry pick the most populated areas with demographic to support the products we sell. Fiber to cell towers, fiber to the business, fiber to neighborhood along with legacy copper facilities and satellite dishes will still be only option for huge portion of the country in five years. A real world T analogy would be this, we roll out 5G in Dallas, Houston & San Antonio Texas over five years. So that gets 5G coverage to around five million people, problem is the total population of Texas is over twenty eight million. Now I’ll admit that recent census data concludes that over 80% of population lives in major cities so their plan to roll out technology to the masses makes good business sense. However that still leaves millions of customers living in rural areas dependent on legacy services
Not a chance
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