I do not believe, that At&t, will continue to provide internet access and voice services to the millions of subscribers that it currently has. I do not believe, that they will transition the existing customer base as a whole, to the newer technologies such as 5G. They will strategically abandon those that do not meet their criteria as to profitability. John Donovan will continue to tout T's civic responsibility to provide jobs in urban areas such as Chicago, with his cute little video's. Make no mistake. T is a monster.
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Fiber ain't going away but it will not be the predominant facility at the edge of the network. In 5-10 years wireless will be the most common connection to the network particularly with residential customers. Businesses will continue to use a lot of fiber. Fiber will be the facility out to the edge of the network and wireless will be the last link to the customer. Rolling out a 5G network is much cheaper than running dedicated fiber to residential customers. Current 5G download speeds easily hit 1gigbit with decent signal strength. Bottom line is neither fiber or wireless requires the manpower to maintain that copper does so the field techs are going to be hit especially hard over the next 5 years.
Lol what a id--t....fiber is not the future? Are you stupid or just a troll with no clue?? Fiber overlay in Ca is full speed ahead with no end in sight. Fiber is the future you dumb--s!! 5g has such short range many antennas are needed, and wireless will never have enough bandwidth to cover everyone. Fiber is almost unlimited In bandwidth... only current equipment at both ends is the limiting factor right now.
Fibre is dead old tecnology that will be replaced in the next few year att as usual spent trillions on old tecnology that is a waste while verizon has already upgraded to post fibre
The fiber build is over. It was announced yesterday that the build is done and all work will be sent to construction in the next few week.
In California the politicians will not allow copper to be abandoned, the fiber here has less protection than the copper has ( as in none ), so the squirrels chew the hell out of it.There are squirrels in every inch of California.I feel pretty good about the next couple of years.We are building out 5 G equipment in a select few areas, but will be obsolete by the time they get 5G working.
Between fiber and directv we have so much work that we can’t even keep up. We are on 6 days and 10 to 12 a day if you want it.
N.E. Texas is going strong with fiber build out and overlay as well. It is kind of a mixed blessing. There is so much work now, but once the fiber build out is complete the network will be immune to many of the problems that plague the copper plant, and it is darn near future proof. I could be wrong but I think J.Donovan was quoted in an interview that he sees a case for 5G in some areas, but a fiber build out will still make sense because 5G will rely on fiber back haul anyway. My take on this was, if we have to build out fiber for 5G, might as well lay a lot of fiber.
I don’t know about 5g yet, but fiber is exploding in my area. Not just in the immediate suburbs either I am seeing builds all over Detroit and it’s expanding farther and farther north.
Your post is purely opinion at this point.
I do not believe that you know how to use a comma properly.
FirstNet is a SCAM, a make believe story, just like many other, and their phantom PR campaigns without real substance. Pure stock speculation
On the 4th quarter earnings call, conducted in Jan 2018, I saw this: "On 5G, Simon, the use case I get most excited about is the opportunity to have nearly a nationwide, broadband footprint. And it could be fixed-line replacement. The capacity is there. The performance is there."
So, potentially, AT&T could become a nationwide internet service provider, not just a regional one. Of course, that would be the same for Verizon, etc.
And I'm seeing small cell sprouting up in rural areas, albeit not 5G yet.
who cares what you believe. what should matter is what the rich and powerful believe. the 1 percenters that control 95 percent of all the wealth. while the commoner like us are led to believe that they will act in our best interests. you keep imagining but i will start making plans on creating wealth.
Melissa Arnoldi said herself that thanks to FirstNet, we are obligated to provided to the best in class wireless network to rural America. That's code for "if it weren't for taxpayer money, rural America could go phuck itself"
Well said reference "monster". Now with no oversight T can prioritize profits over public safety as it starts its lowering standards that was controlled by net neutrality and expect emergency services to pay more for priority and availability