re: Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Competition

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Wired internet will be the rotary phone in just a few years

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Maybe, we'll see. Fiber has so much more bandwidth, though. With wireless you're limited by certain radio frequencies.

Of course, Elon Musk (and competitors) plan to launch a fleet of low-orbit satellites that will cover the country. It will offer 30ms latency and 1 Gbps speeds which is about the same as a wired connection. Current satellite Internet sucks because it has around 600ms latency, which isn't very enjoyable.

Satellite Internet, of course, uses radio waves just as terrestrial wireless. While they may be able to provide 1 Gbps now, will they be able to offer 10 Gbps or 100 Gbps tomorrow? Will there be enough radio spectrum available? Fiber will have no problems as several Terabits have already been demonstrated in test equipment.

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Wired internet will be the rotary phone in just a few years, allowing more companies to offer services.

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Nothing comes close to wired internet at this time especially fiber. It's more stable and faster. It will be a decade or so before something even close to it is developed on a large scale.