Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

• 1opx Couldn’t agree more with you. You don’t need all those c-appy apps s—ing every bit of your wireless data sending your info back without people even knowing. Instead use the website of the company, its the same or better without the sh–ty content. You don’t need all the push notifications ON making you lose your life poking at your smartphone all the time. Turn most OFF and leave only very important ones. And use WiFi every single time there are available to you. Learn how to manage correctly you device and be savvy about it. Don’t be a victim of the content companies!!

Most people won’t need 5g. Cable companies can provide lower cost broadband and people will use wifi in the home and hotspots for wireless broadband usage.
If you manage your cellular data carefully by turning off usage for parasitic apps and close them when not needed. Then use wifi when available you may be surprised on how little data you can use. I am sure a lot of people don’t monitor their usage and get unlimited plans when a cheaper data plan will work.

Also don’t need to stream 4k content on my little cellphone screen when walking down a city street.

Not when they get hologram projections for augmented reality maybe they will find a use for 5g.

The low latency as they say is good for operating autonomous cars from the cloud. But not seeing wide usage for that anytime in the near future.

@11E1cr2U-ocu AT&T has realized this and in fact it was in one of last years cost analysis reports from the company, they figured out exactly what you just pointed out that they would need to roll out more fiber nodes for 5G so much so that it would be the same as if the had just continued to roll out fiber to the home. After that analysis everyone has been mum about their 2020 bs with 5G and lowered their expectation trying to shift into other disastrous ventures (dtv/TW) and even fearless leader Stevenson has thrown in the towel bailing next year rather than witness his ideas crumble.

5g millimeter wave is line of sight only with a range of 500 feet. Won't penetrate glass, leaves, walls, anything. It will need fiber backhaul to support the necessary bandwidth.

If you are going to run fiber to all 5G sites, why not run it all the way to the home?

VZ can't cover NBA or NFL venues with 5G. What makes anyone think it will work in apartments condos or homes?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/verizons-5g-network-cant-cover-an-entire-basketball-arena-either/

Its called Wireless broadband. The game in Telecom has been data for a decade now and 5g is going to let us push more bits to more people, when that happens a lot (a lot all) of folks will be like , Why do I need cable or fiber? So they will ditch there cable or fixed wireline service and just use cellular 5g . I know a lot of my coworkers pool poo this idea , but that's what's going to happen. T can then charge say $100-150 for broadband wireless plus mobile plus content and the cable companies will begin hemorrhaging subscribers. So there's some real revenue there , the losers will be the cable monopolies , they'll likely partner Telcos when it gets really mad for them.

Pfft. AT&T will be just fine.