The average smartphone bill is like $160 a month, and charges $10 a GB once you go beyond somewhere around 250MB to 10GB.
Contrast to $70-$80 a month for fiber optic that, if capped, is somewhere around 300 GB.
Verizon and AT&T won't give us optical fiber not because it is "too expensive" but because it is too cheap.
If we had universal optic fiber we could have good wireless coverage where everybody lives and works for 1/10 the OPEX of expensive and high latency LTE. Legacy LTE technology is great if you want to play angry birds when you crash your car, but other than that it is a horrible way to provision internet bandwidth.
The fastest way I've seen people under 20 end up with a 300 credit score is when they think they are saving money with a "framily" plan. Then things go bad, then they have to pay cancellation fees, pay back handset subsidies and pretty soon it's worse than the average drug deal gone bad.
Contrast to $70-$80 a month for fiber optic that, if capped, is somewhere around 300 GB.
Verizon and AT&T won't give us optical fiber not because it is "too expensive" but because it is too cheap.
If we had universal optic fiber we could have good wireless coverage where everybody lives and works for 1/10 the OPEX of expensive and high latency LTE. Legacy LTE technology is great if you want to play angry birds when you crash your car, but other than that it is a horrible way to provision internet bandwidth.