5G roadblock: labor

Sat Jan 4 10:44:15 UTC 2020

Andrey Kostin <ankost at podolsk.ru> writes:

> Could be true very soon. When supporting cable infrastructure will
> become too expensive they will cut it in lieu of mobile, like many
> railways were decomissioned earlier. Must be a local tipping point in
> each area but it shouldn't be long to wait.

It's happening where I live, now.  My ISP recently announced that all
the POTS lines, and any network connectivity over them, would be
decommissioned shortly, and affected subscribers moved to cellular
instead.  It's happening all over the country, as the company that owns
the POTS infrastructure has decided it's too expensive to keep
maintaining it.

-tih
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